Grub, Dual Boot

[Jim]

On 10/01/2009 06:34 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 17:05 -0400, Jim wrote:
>    
>> On 10/01/2009 04:41 PM, suvayu ali wrote:
>>      
>>> 2009/10/1 Jim<mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Dual booting with WinXP and Fedora 11.
>>>>
>>>> Hard Drive 0    sda1  WindowsXP
>>>>
>>>> Hard Drive 1    sdb1  /boot   Fedora 11
>>>>
>>>> Isn't the command  grub-install  /dev/sda  what you do to write grub to boot
>>>> from
>>>> sda ?
>>>>
>>>> I ran that command from fedora 11 but it still wants to boot from WindowsXP
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> you need to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. the line `default=___' should
>>> say `default=1' if F11 is the 2nd entry
>>> on your list.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Here is my menu.lst file.
>> I do have a separate /boot partition  sdb1
>> WindowXP is on sda
>> Fedora 11 is on sdb
>> With this menu.lst, I did a,   grub-install  --recheck /dev/sda , and
>> when I do a reboot I get a Error 21.
>>
>> Thanks for your responds.
>>      
> ----
> boot into rescue mode
>
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
> grub-install /dev/sda
>
> what is output of?
>
> cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
> cat /etc/fstab
>
> Craig
>
>
>    
Here they are.
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