On 04/13/2011 05:12 AM, Stephen P Molnar wrote: > I have a HP Pavillion 9000 Laptop with PheonixBIOS v. F.09. > > Yesterday I successfully installed Fedora v14 on a 1GB USB External Hard > Drive. Before the installation I reset the Boot Order to: > > 1.USB Hard Drive (Fedora 14) > > 2.CD/DVD ROM Drive > > 3.Netbook Hard Drive (MS Win 7 Pro) > > 4.USB Floppy > > 5.USB Diskette on key > > When the Fedora installer rebooted the system, the laptop booted into MS > Windows 7 Professional (the OS installed on the Netbook Hard Drive). > When I attempted to reboot I think that I hit F8 during the early stage > of the reboot and Fedora booted with no action from the led indicator > for the Netbook HD. Great I thought finished the installation and shut > the computer down with the Fedora shutdown option. > > This morning when I booted the computer with the External HD running the > machine booted into Win 7. Now, the boot order is the same as I set it > in the BIOS, but the Boot Menu only has two options: 2 and 3 (in that > order). This, of course explains why the computer boots into MS Win7. > > Finally, the question” > > What’s going on here, and how do I get Fedora to run? Did you install grub into the MBR of the USB drive? You need to if that's going to be the first drive in your boot sequence. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - grep me no patterns and I'll tell you no lines - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
