Coy Scott wrote:
I partitioned the hard drive of my Gateway GT5224 PC so that I could
make it a dual boot system. It came with Windows XP. I installed
Fedora Core 6. However, I can't boot Fedora.
Whenever I installed GRUB on the master boot record (MBR) and then
rebooted windows XP, the software detected "file corruption" and forced
a reinstallation of Windows XP. This overwrote the MBR, removing GRUB
and making it impossible to boot Fedora.
So, I tried the only other installation option. I had the installation
program install GRUB on first sector of the boot partition (/dev/sda6).
However, when I reboot the computer, GRUB never gets to run because
Windows XP is using the MBR.
I've looked through a couple of books, and the GRUB documentation on the
"gnu.org" website. But, I haven't found a solution.
Can someone point me to documentation of how to make a boot CD? Can I
put GRUB on a bootable CD that will allow me to boot Windows XP or
Fedora Core 6? Do you have another suggestion? Thank you.
You can re-install grub using the rescue CD which should fix your
problem unless you want to do that another way.
You can build a boot cd using the rescue cd and the mkbootdisk script
which will build an iso file that you can burn.
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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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