Hi,

I run a Windows XP and dual boot it with Fedora 7. I've Fedora on a seperate 20GB HDD and XP runs on another 80GB HDD. When i installed Fedora the GRUB bootloader shows up two options.

Fedora 2.3......
Other

I selected other just to find that is never worked.

I opened the grub.conf file and found that everything was ok. The "OTHER" opption had "chainloader + 1" as expected... Y does it not work then???

CAn i just install a boot loader alone in my windows HDD and dual boot it with Linux????

bios boot order selects a bootable hard drive either A or b

when you install grub it should go into the first detected hard drive but the balance of the booting files must reside on a linux partition.

Its not clear from you post where your /boot is?

pls read my signature on dual boot with windows and see if that answers your question

if not...post your bios boot order...the types of drives....and the partitions for ms that is where is C...first partition etc.....and your /etc/fstab and your /boot/grub/menu.lst or it may be called grub.conf

This is my boot configuration.

I've two hard drives. 80GB and 20GB. It is in this 20GB harddrive that i have installed Fedora (Linux). The partitioning of this drive is
/boot 100mb
swap 1024mb
root 19GB

when i installed linux i chose to install all parttioons on my 20GB HDD and completely ignored the 80GB one.The partitioning of a 80GB one is
c: 15GB
d: 10GB
.
.
.
some unpartioned space

whenever i want to boot into linux i chose the resp HDD from the boot menu of bios and then start up with the resp OS. Now i want to stop doing it. I want to boot my 80GB C: (windows) from my 20GB /boot.

How do i make my boot loader point the 80GB C: inorder to boot that

Thanks in advance...

keep bios boot order to see the linux drive first and therefore its mbr and bootloader.

2) go into linux /boot/grub/menu.lst and add an entry for second drive Edit with root powers...note there is a gap between bracket ) ( and read my signature if you have trouble

eg

title ms
root (hd1,0)
map (hd1,0) (hd0,1)
map (hd0,1) (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Hi Aus9,

I was just curious what the difference was in what I have used to boot WindowsXP on my Grub menu.lst, which is:

title Windows
root (hd0,1)
rootnoverify
makeactive
chainloader +1


and what you have listed here with the map instructions. Is it because they are different physical drives?

regards

Bob

1) bios boot order determines whether grub sees a particualar drive as hd0 or hd1.

your last post has bios boot order showing hd0...so linux is on second drive....I was suggesting keep bios boot order second drive..hd1 so c becomes hd1....if its hd1...C likes to think it should be hd0 hence the mapping commands.


if you do not wamt to swap drive order in bios..by all means keep c drive as first drive but then that will change your linux to hd1.

get it?