Dual Boot Fedora Core 3 & Windows

[Marc B Kuhne]

On the initial screen you see('grub "prompt" looking thing'), is the cursor
flashing next to the 'title' of your default O.S.? If so, that is the
initial screen for grub, as of fc3. You can do nothing, let the default
'time-out' to launch your default O.S., or you can use the directional keys
(arrow keys) to select a different O.S. on your machine. After depressing a
key on the keyboard at the initial screen, the more familiar grub 'Splash'
screen will be displayed.

Of course, if that is not the situation, then I would suggest following the
advice from Alexander. Hope this is helpful

Marc B Kuhne


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexander Dalloz [mailto:ad+lists at uni-x.org] 
>Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 7:31 AM
>To: raggit at crispybacon.org; For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: Dual Boot Fedora Core 3 & Windows

>Am So, den 16.01.2005 schrieb raggit um 14:24:

> I've installed FC3 on a seperate drive from my windows installation.  The
drive has been parted with a 25 gig
> partition strictly for fedora.  Everything seemed to go find up until the
reboot.  
> The machine reboots and then i get a grub "prompt" looking thing with the
flashing cursor but grub never does
> seem to load or show me the two operating systems to choose from...

>You seem to have let grub installed to the wrong MBR.

>http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/bob_kashani/grub/

>Use this document on how to boot from CD1 and install grub again. Pay
attention that your drive may be /dev/sda and not /dev/hda (having SCSI
or SATA). You will find out by using "fdisk -l" or "mount".

>Alexander


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