Instalation question

Brian Chase networkr0 at cfl.rr.com
Mon Nov 1 03:27:02 UTC 2004


Try re-installing Fedora, but choose "Master Boot Record" for Grub 
installation.

Oh yeah, and don't forget NOT to format the NTFS or windows partition 
while choosing destinations.

That should leave windows alone, but give you the dual boot to either 
windows or Fedora by default.

Sri Chav wrote:

> Hi,
>  I just installed Fedora. My pc has 2 hard disks. One for Windows and 
> another had Linux 8.3. I installed Fedora on the secondary hard disk 
> (which had Linux 8.3). During this installation, I specified that the 
> dual boot be installed on my secondary hard disk. Changing the boot 
> priorities in BIOS did not help. So I started to install Fedora in 
> upgrade mode, hoping to install the dual boot on primary disk. I 
> selected the primary disk for dual boot installation. After the 
> installation completed, I restarted my computer and found that the 
> dual boot did not pop up. My questions are:
> 1) Can Linux 8.3 and Fedora exist on the same disk? I believe the 
> kernels are different.
> 2) How can I fix the dual boot problem?
>
> I would appreciate any kind of help in this matter.
>
>
> Thank you
> -s-
>
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