grub/core6

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:41 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> At 04:22 PM 11/30/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> > > I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system.
> > >
> > > I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and 
> > fedora
> > > core6 on its own drive (hdb).
> > >
> > > After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't
> > > get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no
> > > stopping at the grub process.
> > >
> > > To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of core6 but
> > > even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it
> > > never appeared.
> > > And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get things going
> > > that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done..
> > >
> > > Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot.
> > > ran chroot /mnt/sysimage
> > > Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does not have
> > > any corresponding BIOS drive.
> > > So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb  with the same result
> > > .  /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive.
> > > I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1  all with the same result:
> > > "/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive."
> 
> 
> 
> >What does you BIOS say about the drives?
> 
> 
> All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed, 
> that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
> I don't know what else to say??
> 

You miss my question. When you go into the BIOS is the drive properly
identified?
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