FC3 Dual Boot/Separate Drives
 

Over the Summer I successfully installed Fedora Core 2 on the secondary drive of my AMD Athlon (1.4ghz) based system. I enjoyed using this distro for several months before storage space became an issue and I inevitably resorted to allowing Windows to reclaim that space.

I've since purchased a 40 gigabyte drive and am experiencing difficulty installing Fedora Core 3. After several attempts I got the impression that the iso files I'd downloaded may have been corrupt, so I popped in the cd's I'd used previously to complete a successful install of FC2.

Everything appeared to have run smoothly when I ran the cd's, but after being prompted to restart my system I received the error 'Missing Operating System'.

On each attempt, as with the previous successful install, I allowed Anaconda to complete the auto reformat of the drive I'm installing on.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

I'd appreciate any advice. I would really love to get FC3 installed, but would settle for success on FC2 (and an uprade later)


StarSage

It seems GRUB isn't installed correctly .. did you skipped GRUB installation?

Install Solution
 

After booting up my pc the day after I realized that I'd set my system BIOS to boot my secondary drive.. much to my relief after switching back to the other drive I was warmly greeted by the Grub boot loader :)

While I was unable to complete a successful install of FC3 (using the cd's I burned from the iso's) I was able to perform an upgrade after installing FC2.

I'm not sure if anyone else has run into this scenario. But if you're having a problem making the switch you may want to try an upgrade instead of a clean install.


StarSage