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boot loader
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:17 am
by s.dot
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?
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:20 am
by Jenk
grob/grub? Fedora should come with that - did you choose not to install it?
Anyway, google for grob or grub.. however it is spelt
Or to adjust windows boot.ini run "msconfig"
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:35 am
by Chris Corbyn
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
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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