bootloader blues

[Tod Merley]

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On 4/13/06, Jimmy Montague <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:
>
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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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Hi Jimmy & All:

Master (boot per above) Slave (not boot per above).  Try strapping the linux
drive as Master and the windows drive as Slave.  Also go into CMOS (during
the pre boot process) and check that the linux drive is to be booted from.

The linux drive should have an MBR from your load process that points to
it's Grub loader and should be bootable.  It simply lookes like the CMOS
sees the windows drive as the one to boot from on that IDE strap.

Good Hunting!

Tod
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