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From: MiataRed on 5 May 2006 07:39
I made the leap and have installed FC5 on a 3rd hard drive on my PC.

But I am having a heck of a time getting it to boot.

My PC has 2 drives for XP Pro, my boot disk is D, and use C for files
and programs. I know that normally C should have been my boot... not
sure how this happened... but it works fine.

My 3rd drive is on my 2nd IDE line, along with me DVD.

To install I have booted from the FC5 DVD. I have tried changing the
boot priority in the BIOS - always boots in XP ?

I have played with GRUB install so much I have no idea what I am doing
anymore...

If I reboot, after removing the DVD from the drive, XP always boots up,
with no option to run FC5.

When trying to get GRUB installed I keep getting a message along the
lines that No kernel was installed and that Boot Loader was not
changed....

Ideas ?

Many thanks.

Denis

From: Some Other Somebody Else on 5 May 2006 09:37
On 5 May 2006 04:39:45 -0700, "MiataRed" <MiataRed(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>[...] When trying to get GRUB installed I keep getting a message along the
>lines that No kernel was installed and that Boot Loader was not
>changed....

Exactly what do you do that results in these messages, and exactly
what are the messages?

It looks as though the standard installation options were overridden
in some way; normally Fedora will make itself the boot default unless
instructed to do otherwise. It should not be necessary to change the
BIOS if the grub bootloader is installed on the MBR of the physical
disk corresponding to the Windows boot drive.
From: MiataRed on 5 May 2006 12:47
Exact message:

No kernel pages were installed.
Your boot loader configuration will not be changed.

Why will Grub not install ? I picked hdb (which is the /boot)
I tried LBA, same problem

Alternatively can I build a floppy disk to book Linux when I want to ?

..

From: Kenny1111 on 5 May 2006 12:51
MiataRed wrote:
> Exact message:
>
> No kernel pages were installed.
> Your boot loader configuration will not be changed.
>
> Why will Grub not install ? I picked hdb (which is the /boot)
> I tried LBA, same problem
>
> Alternatively can I build a floppy disk to book Linux when I want to ?

You seemed to install GRUB on a boot partition, but not the MBR. Thus,
your computer will not default to GRUB but will use MS's bootloader. I
actually have a dual boot and use MS's bootloader, and find it works
quite well. Here are a couple links to posts I wrote about doing this
(I should acknowledge, as I do in the other post, that I received much
help from others).

http://tinyurl.com/j2tf9
http://tinyurl.com/hhrdw
From: MiataRed on 5 May 2006 17:12
I have a 3rd hard drive: now with 3 partition: 1 for NTFS (I need it
for files under XP, 1 FAT32 called Transfer that I wish to use to
exchange files between XP and Fedora, if and when I can even get it to
run and 1 left unformated, where Fedora is now installed.

Once is is installed, the only thing I can do is either go to XP or
boot from the Fedora DVD to re-run the installer or other limited
options. I haver tried linux rescue.

Have run df to get a list and the /boot is dev/hdd3 .

When I try to un grub-install I will not work..

I suspect that the fact my /windows directory is on D is the culprit or
something.

I have re-installed Fedora at least 20 times to date, trying all sorts
of options, to no avail.

I think I do no need to re-install - looks like it's all tied to this
darn GRUB.

I would like to keep the Windows NTLDR loader, pick Fedora and run it
when I want.

I understand I need to append the boot.ini file with something like
linux.bin, and point to that file somewhere - no clue of where if
goes... I read

I followed Ed's Software Guide: Use GRUB, install Boot Loader on first
sector of boot partition (which df report is dev/hdd3) (dev/hda and
dev/hdb are my XP boot drives)

I try to make a copy of the boot sector to a floppy - but that ain't
working.

Clueless...

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