On Wed, 21 May 2008 17:41:35 -0700, stan wrote: > Michael D. Setzer II wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I just upgraded a system that had XP and Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 with a >> clean install. The XP is on hd0 and the Linux is on hd1. With Fedora 8, >> this was installed and worked with no problem. >> >> After installing Fedora 9, the system would initially not boot either >> OS. A check of the grub optoin showed the drives were reversed, it was >> using hd0 >> > I noticed that when I installed the live CD of Fedora 9 it reversed the > order of PATA and SATA drives from previous versions. Maybe this is > something new in the 2.6.25 kernel. And might be related to your > problem or not. >> for the linux, and hd1 for the XP. Using th grub edit option, I was >> able to edit the boot line, and correct it, and then later made the >> changes in the grub.conf file itself. Had some problems with the grub >> edit option not working, and had to try it a couple times to get it to >> change, but after physically changing the file, it can boot boot with >> either OS with no problem. >> >> >> +----------------------------------------------------------+ >> Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community >> College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx >> http://www.guam.net/home/mikes >> Guam - Where America's Day Begins >> +----------------------------------------------------------+ >> Id did that to me too, and I had to boot a hundred times with the live cd and fix grub till I got it right. At the beginning I didn't even know what could be wrong. It was giving me an error 22 upon grub 1.5. The ultimate hacking tool this live cd. A life saver. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
