Fedora Core 5 + WinXP Pro

[Christopher Sammet]

During the Fedora installation look under advanced boot loader options and
check the wait time for how long Grub displays the option of going to the
boot menu.  The problem might be that windows is set to be the default
OS and the time Grub display the boot menu option is 0 second in which case
you would not see it and windows would boot.

I have a similar setup only I have FC4 (I haven't had time to install FC5)

This might help and it might not

-Christopher


On 4/16/06, Adam Tunbridge <iamadam at bulldoghome.com> wrote:
>
> I get the feeling dual-boot systems are a /dirty /subject round here but
> needs must I'm afraid. Right, I'm having issues loading Fedora Core 5. I
> have 2 hard-drives:
>
> 80GB  (we'll call this /D1/)
> 100GB (we'll call this /D2/)
>
> I started by installing WinXP on /D1/. Then I installed Fedora on /D2,
> /using GRUB on the MBR of /D1/. This didn't work.  My system just booted
> straight into XP. Then I tried the same but installed GRUB on the first
> sector of /D2/. Same result. Now I've just tried the same install but
> *without *installing GRUB and tried Acronis OS Selector instead. This
> wouldn't event detect the existence of Fedora. I'm a complete noob when
> it comes to Linux (Well, partial noob really. Read a few books) so
> please explain what I'm doing wrong in moderately simple terms.
>
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