Grub, Dual Boot

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 2 00:19:04 UTC 2009


On 10/01/2009 08:01 PM, Aldo Foot wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jim<mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
>    
>> 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
>>      
> _____
>
> Are you able to see the GRUB splash image at all when you're booting?
> The question is aimed at understanding whether you want to just change the
> boot default to Win or F11 or whether you're able to boot to F11 at all.
>
> ~af
>
>    
Well guys I got brave and went into the BIOS and found sdb was disabled 
and I enabled it and Grub does read and boot, and I now can go into 
Windows or Fedora.

So I guess  grub Error 21 means it can't find a hard drive.

I want to think all of you that tried to help.




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