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I use a Windows XP system and attempted to install Fedora 11 (Dual-Boot).The installation proceeds but when the computer restarts after installation,Windows XP is loaded without the boot loader being displayed.
I've used 3 partitions for my installation.i.e 10 gb for '/',1 gb for 'swap' and 100mb for '/boot'.
The default operating system has been selected as Windows and the boot loader is installed in the "First section of the...." (not MBR)..I've even tried installing it with Fedora as default and the boot loader ,but even that didnt work. My hardware satisfies Fedora 11's requirements.
Any ideas?
Reinstall the boot loader using the Fedora install DVD. It wasn't installed properly the first time. This time, install it to the MBR and be done with it.
Are xp and Fedora 11 the only operating systems on the computer?
How many hard drives do you have?
When you re-installed Grub, what happened? Just booted to windows again?
Can you use your Fedora CD to open a terminal, log in as root and run "fdisk -l" command to post your partition information here?
Did you comment out hiddenmenu and change timeout to greater than zero in Fedora's /boot/grub/grub.conf? If you didn't, you will never see a bootloader menu. Your initial install was probably working, but you didn't get to see or access it because Fedora's default is set to increase the speed of booting.
change timeout=0 to timeout=5
#hiddenmenu (put a hash in front of hidden menu)
I have 1 main hard drive which i've partitioned into 5 sub drives.
Windows XP is on /dev/sda1.
Yeah when my PC is restarted after installation of fedora,it just loads Windows.Strange because i've never experienced this problem with previous editions of fedora.
i ran the "fdisk -l" and to my surprise i found "system" of the 3 partitions allotted for linux are in FAT32!! Even when its been formatted as ext3.
Absolutely goin bonkers over this one.
@Goineasy:
I've chosen Fedora as default so even if the bootloader is too fast it should have loaded fedora and not windows.
I've tried installing this about 10 times now.
Could really do with some help.
I have 1 main hard drive which i've partitioned into 5 sub drives
This means you have one hard drive and 5 partitions with three Linux, /boot root, and swap?
Post the actual output of fdisk -l.
I've read in the past that it is possible to install Linux on FAT32 (never tried it so...) but it won't work well. You need to reformat with ext3 or some other Linux filesystem.
You have installed Grub to the master boot record during your installation and it still failed?
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