Grub not found

[Mike McCarty]

William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I am trying to help a friend install Linux for the first time as a dual
> boot using two hard drives.  For FC5 I keep getting "ERROR: no operating
> system found." on the first re-boot.

Did you set the Active (Bootable) bit on that partition?
This may be coming from the BIOS if not.

Could we please see the output of

# fdisk -l

?

> WindowsXP pro is on hda; hdc contains FC5.
> 
> BIOS is set to boot hdc first.  Grub is installed in /boot/grub/.
> grub.conf appears to be written correctly with Linux as the default.

Erm, it needs to be *installed* on the MBR or the BR of one of
the partitions.

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HTH

Mike
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