I recently tried to install Fedora Core 5 on the second hard drive of my desktop PC. I have Windows XP on the first drive and nothing on the second. The install went smoothly but when the computer restarted it went straight into Windows XP and the Grub Bootloader did not appear! I repeated the entire install procedure with the same result. (Mandriva One produced the same problem) For some reason the Grub bootloader had not been installed on the MBR of the primary drive! I found a solution at the following URL: forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=5538&postcount=1

I booted from the Fedora Core Install CD, went into rescue mode, started GRUB and was able to install it onto the MBR. You must make sure you modify the instructions to match your own partitioning set-up!

Because I had installed Fedora onto the second drive rather than a partition on the primary drive I had to set Grub's root device to (hd1,0) instead of (hd0,0). But from then on the instructions worked as written, however it is not necessary to edit the grub.conf file at this stage!

I have posted this because other people might be having the same problems!

drbongo