This problem I have seems to be common. GRUB is not installed correctly and so even though I have 2 Operating Systems XP and Fedora Linux, Windows always boots up. Windows is on an IDE and Fedora Linux is on an external drive.

Also when I log in rescue mode, the first error message I get is that it is not able to find the boot loader and it prepares and installs some packages, but when I re-boot, there is no difference, it goes directly into Windows, even though I choose my default OS to boot up as Fedora



I tried to manuall install grub using the following command by logging in rescue mode
I did chroot /mnt/sysimage
At the command line I typed in the following command
grub-install
error I got "Install device not specified"
Next command
grub install /dev/hda
error I got "/dev/sda1 does not have a corresponding BIOS drive"


I went into rescue mode and found this to be setting on in my grub.conf



grub.conf
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
password --md5 (lots of stuff)
title Fedora Core(2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVo100 rh
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1



When I go into Disk Druid, this is how my hard drive look, I am not listinging the LVM's (there are two of them)


/dev/hda (Windows is installed here)
/dev/hda1 ntfs
/dev/sda (Linux is installed here
/dev/sda1 ext3
/dev/sda3 VolGroup00 LVM PV


Contents of fstab


/dev/VolGroup00/LogVo100 / ext3
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs
/dev/proc /proc proc
/dev/sys /sys sysfs
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVo100 swap swap

increase the timeout to 30 and see the result.