Re: Grub, Dual Boot

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. > ---- 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