I have Windows XP Pro on my fixed harddrive and installed Fedora on the secondary swapable harddrive. All works well with those hard drives in. Both systems can boot. But when I turn the computer off and swap the fedora hard drive for another Harddrive with Windows files, my computer freezes at a GRUB prompt. I am new to Fedora but not computers, anyone with any ideas ?

I did set the disk config in the Bios to LBA but not sure how to run the sfdisk -d/dev/hda sfdisk--no-reread -H240/dev/hda........... If i need to do this can someone please help me out. And if there is another way to boot my system without Fedora, replacing the drive I would appreciate to hear it.

Thanks all

Rich

grub is a 2 stage bootloader. It reads a file grub.conf on the linux partition to display the menu. Since grub can not find the file that is why you see the grub prompt.

Here is an alternative:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux...w2k-HOWTO.html

Thanks for the 5 minute reply Wow that was fast. I will be checking that out right now... Thanks again

Hummm I looked at that thread and it seems a bit tough for me. I will have to wait til my son comes back over and let him take a run at it... He is the one that loaded Fedora for me in the first place ......Thanks again and I'll let you know how it turns out.

While we're on the subject, I found out the hard way that reformatting/partitioning a hard drive without configuring the boot loader is NOT GOOD!

GRUB got confused when I did this with my second hard drive, and decided to hang the system. :-) Just a warning!