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(a)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.
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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
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