Yesterday i decided to go dual boot again and I installed fedora core on a separate partition. However now when I boot up it just goes straight into windows instead of giving me the option to choose which OS I want. So now I'm just stuck using windows.
Where is the boot loader and how can I configure it?
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Don't touch boot.ini unless you have dd copied the boot sector from the linux partition to a file in windows.
Grab you installation disc, and check if you have some boot options when it starts. You can try booting into *nix from there.
If you can't get into *nix from there, alet your linux install disk completely boot but don't press anything.
Once it's booted and ready to start installing press CTRL+F2 to switch framebuffers then log in as root on the disc.
Try mounting your drive and chroot to it then run GRUB
Grab you installation disc, and check if you have some boot options when it starts. You can try booting into *nix from there.
If you can't get into *nix from there, alet your linux install disk completely boot but don't press anything.
Once it's booted and ready to start installing press CTRL+F2 to switch framebuffers then log in as root on the disc.
Try mounting your drive and chroot to it then run GRUB
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mkdir /mnt/linux
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/linux # change hda2 to the correct partition
mount -t proc proc /mnt/linux/proc #Mount the proc to the OS partition
cp -a /etc/mtab /mnt/linux/etc/mtab #Copy the mounted devices file
chroot /mnt/linux #Switch to the new environment
grub #Run grub