bootloader blues

Jimmy Montague rhetoric101 at att.net
Thu Apr 13 19:15:03 UTC 2006


Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 08:41 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
>   
>> So my problem is that, having installed Core 5, I can't boot Core 5 
>> because the boot loader seems to have installed itself on the Linux 
>> drive INSTEAD of on the Windoze drive. That's to say that, whenever I 
>> boot the system, the Windoze boot loader appears INSTEAD of the Grub 
>> boot loader. My attempts to repair and/or reinstall Core 5 yield the 
>> same result.
>>
>> Anyone got a solution?
>>     
>
> Install GRUB to the right place...  
>
> Well, that is what you need to do, and you can work out how to do this
> from the GRUB info file (the man file is quite abbreviated).  If you
> can't follow it, and/or want more specific help, supply more information
> about how your drives are on your system.  Post us the output from the
> following command, issued as the root user:  fdisk -l
>
> (That's a letter l, not a number 1.)
>
>   
Tim:

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My system has two 40g Maxtor ide drives. Both are on the primary strap. 
One is jumpered Master; the other is Slave.

Windoze is on the Master drive. FC5 is installed on the Slave. Sorry: I 
can't decipher the MAN page. I don't know how to copy bootloader to the 
MBR of the Windoze drive..

When I ran fdisk -l, as you suggested, here is the result:

Disk/dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track/ 4866 cylinders
units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk/dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track/ 4866 cylinders
units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device       Boot       Start       End      Blocks          Id      System
dev/hda1      *             1         4865    39078081      7      HPFS/NTFS

dev/hdb1      *            1            13       104391        83       
Linux
dev/hdb2                   14         4866   38981722+    8e       Linux LVM





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