I am trying desparately to setup a new DELL laptop (One hard drive with 80G - partitioned 45GB - WIN and 30 GB Linux) for dual boot.
When I installed the Linux software, it gave me a list of IDE drivers to choose from - and I was able to partition and install software completely.
However, when I tried to get back in rescue mode to change the grub.conf file (to add the Windows title), it simply would not go to the screen that initially allowed me to choose the driver to find the hard drive.
As a result, I can go into rescue mode - but cannot find the hard drive - and then consequently, cannot copy the input file to a FAT32 format for copying onto the Windows partition to set up for dual boot.
What is happening here - why is rescue mode so flaky in the sense that sometimes it finds the Hard drive - but whenever I have a USB device plugged in, it never finds the HD. BTW - the USB device is a floopy that I intend using to get the .img file off and copy onto the windows directory.
Help....I have spent almost a whole weekend trying to get this achieved - never thought I would encounter such a roadblock for something that looked so simple on the face of it.
Thanks
