On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:41 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > At 04:22 PM 11/30/2006 -0600, you wrote: > >On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:01 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > > > I just installed fedora Core6 and now I can't boot up the system. > > > > > > I have a dual boot system here; winXP on a drive by itself (hda) and > > fedora > > > core6 on its own drive (hdb). > > > > > > After things were installed with grub as my default boot manager I can't > > > get into fedora 6 at all. A boot takes me right into windows with no > > > stopping at the grub process. > > > > > > To try and get this working I have tried doing a 'reinstall' of core6 but > > > even though the process said it was installing grub all over again, it > > > never appeared. > > > And than I thought of using the rescue disk and trying to get things going > > > that way. And that failed. But here is what I had done.. > > > > > > Fedora Core6 rescue disk - boot. > > > ran chroot /mnt/sysimage > > > Than I ran grub-install /dev/hda, and that gave me "/dev/hda does not have > > > any corresponding BIOS drive. > > > So I ran grub-install again but used /dev/hdb with the same result > > > . /dev/hdb is my core6 installation drive. > > > I even ran grub-install /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hda1 all with the same result: > > > "/dev/hdX does not have any corresponding BIOS drive." > > > > >What does you BIOS say about the drives? > > > All it says is that the particular drive on which grub is to be installed, > that it does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. > I don't know what else to say?? > You miss my question. When you go into the BIOS is the drive properly identified? -- ======================================================================= Some people have a great ambition: to build something that will last, at least until they've finished building it. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
