Re: Basic installation problem.. Plz help me solve it..

"Shiv Shankar" <[email protected]>
writes:

 > I have 2 hdds.. One is a sata2 and the other one PATA.. I got windows xp and
 > vista running in the sata2.. I installed fc4 in my pata.. I have no jumper
 > in the pata at this point.. The installation was successful (no doubt).. But
 > when i rebooted i got the vista bootloader.. No fc4 option in it (ya u know
 > it..).. I went into the bios and made the pata one highest in the boot
 > priority.. Still dint see the fc4 bootloader.. Just a blank screen.. The i
 > put in a jumper to my pata one and then tried it.. Still no use.. The blank
 > screen still comes..

Your problem seems to be that you are using Microsoft's bootloader. Go
back to FC 4 CD, boot it in the rescue mode and install the GRUB boot
loader and install it into MBR of the disk into which Microsoft's OSes
are installed. Then, make that disk highest in boot priority.

Make sure you have appropriate settings / entries in /etc/boot.conf
(or probably /boot/grub/menu.lst - do not remember which is the file
for FC4) for XP and vista.

The entries should be something like

menuentry "winPEE" {
        set root=(sdX,1)
        chainloader +1
        boot


remember to replace sdX with whatever appropriate device your XP and
vista partitions are recognised as by GNU/Linux.

The entries for FC4 ought to have been created; else run update-grub. 

HTH.
 



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