boot loader problem

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Jul 29 13:22:08 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 15:01 +0200, Mattia Milleri wrote:
> I have a problem with the bootloader, at the end of FC4 install you are 
> asked which of partitions of the disk you want to be bootable, and you 
> have to choose those that you want and give a name to them.
> I have one partition with WinXP and another one with FC4, so I wanted 
> the possibilty to choose during system start which OS I wanted to boot, 
> but the boot loader boots only FC4 even if I wanted the possibility to 
> boot WinXP also.
> I can rewrite the boot-loader to boot WinXP but then it's impossible to 
> boot FC4.
> Maybe I did something wrong during installation process? In which way I 
> should choose the partitions that will be bootable? Maybe I had to 
> de-select the default flag on FC4 for booting.
> Thanks for help!
> 
For a few seconds during the start of the boot there is an option to hit
a key and get the boot menu.  The menu is hidden by default but that can
be disabled. If you display the menu, then you can select whatever other
os you have set to boot.

If you look in /boot/grub/grub.conf and comment out the line that says
"hiddenmenu" then the menu will display every time, not just when you
press a key at the proper time.  The length of time the menu is
displayed/available is set by the timeout line in the same location.




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