bootloader blues

Jimmy Montague rhetoric101 at att.net
Thu Apr 13 22:07:20 UTC 2006


Thanks Stephen. I tried that already. When I tried to boot the system, 
the BIOS told me it couldn't find an OS.

Jimmy

Stephen Esquibel wrote:
> Try changing your BIOS to boot from the Linux drive rather than the 
> Windows one.  Then have the Grub, which is already installed there, 
> choose the OS.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> On 4/13/06, *Jimmy Montague* <rhetoric101 at att.net 
> <mailto:rhetoric101 at att.net>> wrote:
>
>     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:
>
>     Read this post in a full-screen window.
>
>     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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