Fedora 4 test 3 on USB Hard Disk;
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jun 3 07:30:06 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 08:24 +0100, Mirco Beaker wrote:
> Hello there everybody,
> I have finally mamged to install Fedora 4 3 test on my secondary USB
> hard disk.
> During setup, Anaconda detected my usb hard disk and partitioned it as
> usual.
> I decided to install GRUB on the MBR on my primary internal Hard disk
> with Windows XP installed (for now),
> Once the installation was completed, I rebooted hoping to have as first
> screen GRUB and all the usual options I would get with two internal Hard
> drives.
> UNFORTUNATELY, there was no grub and the system just procedeed booting
> Windows XP.
> I set up the BIOS of my DELL OPTIPLEX GX270 to be able to boot from USB
> emulation therefore the external hard disk but nothing happened.
> Is anybody able to help me here?
Clearly grub hasn't been installed on the MBR. Perhaps your BIOS has a
"virus protection" option that prevents the MBR being overwritten,
something like that?
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
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