Hi,

I installed Fedora Core 1 from the CD's and I didnt install a bootloader as I use Acronis OS Selector 5. Now, I cant boot into Fedora, never have been able to because i didnt think i would need to create a boot disk However I do... how do I do this now I have finished the install??

TIA

" how do I do this now I have finished the install??"

Your Fedora install CD has a rescue mode. Boot into rescue mode and use that to boot into your Fedora system. This is an awkward way to boot so you will want to create a grub bootloader.

To create a grub bootloader log in as root and open a shell. Issue the command:
rpm -qi grub
to see if grub is installed. If it is not then install grub from the Fedora install CD.

Once you get grub installed then you can create /boot/grub/grub.conf and put the grub bootloader on the MBR with the grub-install command.

For the full details of what I outlined above see:
man rpm
http://www.geocities.com/cyberkabila/main/grub.htm

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i dont particularly want to install it on my MBR... is there anyway to install it on my Partition so i can then boot the partition?

"i dont particularly want to install it on my MBR... is there anyway to install it on my Partition so i can then boot the partition?"

The BIOS always looks first on the MBR if you are booting the hard disk. If you do not want to put a bootloader on the MBR then you can boot a boot floppy or a boot CD. If you want to make a boot floppy then the grub tutorial explains how to make a grub boot floppy.

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I don't know if the last answer helped your or not so heres the way I did it...
Put in your installation disc/diskette get into rescue mode and make a note of where it mounts your system image. It was /mnt/sysimage in RHWS.

Change your root to your system image
chroot /mnt/sysimage

Then look in your /lib/modules directory
cd /lib/modules/
ls

This is your kernel version so make a note of it.

then you can do a mkbootdisk (not specifying a device so it defaults to fd0 I believe)
mkbootdisk your.kernel.from-last-step

At this point you should have a boot disk.

From one newbie to another, good luck.

yeh i managed to do it by installing LILO in the end. It was really easy to do. I just followed the HOWTO.

Many Thanks,