Hi everyone,

I've just received my new computer (old one died), and I'm trying to install Fedora core 6.

My computer is an Athlon 64x2, on a K-9 SLI motherboard, nvidia 7950x2 graphics and two SATA HDs.
On the first drive, which I will call using the linux convention 'cause I'm lazy, I have Vista installed (upgraded from XP, so I'm pretty much sure that it is using a MBR on the disk instead of their new system, GUPD or something).

+ Sda is a 250 Gb disk, divided in three NTFS partitions (roughly 30 Gb, 200 Gb and 20 Gb).
+ Sdb is a 400 Gb disk, with a 4 Gb primary partition (unformatted, will use it latter to install an RTOS), 297 Gb free space and 100 Gb NTFS for backup purposes.

The whole install goes smoothly... I tell Anaconda to use the free space in sdb to create a default linux layout, and then I tell GRUB to install itself on the MBR in sda, activating both Vista an Linux as bootable options. The installation finishes, and I reboot to find... myself in Vista!!! No GRUB screen, nothing!

Could someone please help me??????

Regards,

Gonzalo

How grub boots Linux will not be affected by the existing install of XP, Vista, or any other Windows.

From what you describe, I would say that GRUB did NOT get installed to sda.

Can you boot the Fedora disk (live CD) and get to a terminal and run "fdisk -l" We need to see what Linux thinks the partition setup is.

Also from the terminal, you can re-install GRUB as follows:

grub to get a grub CLI prompt
root (hd1,0) Assumes that the Linux /boot directory is on drive 2, partition 1---aka sdb1
setup (hd0) Puts grub on the mbr of the first drive.

The above assumes that the Windows drive in fact shows up as #1, and the Linux as #2

Thanks a lot!!!

That solved the problem (weird that Anaconda didn't manage to install grub, though!)

I just wonder how you "activated both Windows and Linux as bootable options"; GRUB can boot only one by default; if you indicated both, it's not surprising it should have failed to install.

I read it that they were both on the list of options.

My guess is that the installer put grub on sdb

@Pixellany:
Exactly, both were on the list of bootable partitions. I also suspect that GRUB was on sdb, even though it asked me where I wanted and I told it on sda...