how to dual boot plz help
hellow
i was using windowsXP in my 80gb HD. now i just installed fedora core8 and now i dont have any boot loader to select winxp or fedoracor8. i tried from rescue mode mounted to chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/hda but it didnt work. is shows command not found /sbin so what should i do to make the boot loader and find xp in the bootloader. |
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thnx for d help
ya i can boot to fedoracore 8. its ok but how can i edit my grub.conf to
dual boot from XP and Fedora. i tried from rescued mode grub-install /dev/hda but it didnt worked its shows something like /bin/sbin command not found i cant remember now. |
OK - this means you have a bootloader - you do not need to enter rescue mode.
If you selected a dual boot option on install, there is every chance that grub is already configured to provide a menu, it just is not displayed by default. When you boot up, at some point you will see the message: Loading GRUB Stage 1.5 Press <esc> to view the menu ... press escape. And you'll see the menu. |
thank u sooooooooooo much
thnx a lot for your help |
So it worked?
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still having problem with dual boot
hellow bro
i am using fedora core 8. i configured my grub.conf file like following i add at the bottom of the file title winxp root hd(0,0) norootverify chainloader +1 so when starts my pc it shows press any key to enter menue and then i get the both os to select. but i want my boot loader when i start my pc. is there any way to do that. i will appreciate your help as you did before |
What does the rest of your grub menu.lst look like? I assume it looks like:
default 0 timeout 5 title Linux root (blah blah blah kernel yada yada title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 so that the default is Linux and you have 5 seconds to get the menu to change to XP? hope you don't mind my putting in my two bits... |
ya you are right
but i want to see the OS choise menue at startup . it gives me 5second to get into the menue and if i dont then it will boot to the default menue like default=0(fedora) or =1(winxp) so is there any way to get my boot menue at startup with fedoracore8 ??? thnx for your help |
Put a "#" character in column one in the line that has "hiddenmenu". This will allow the menu to be shown.
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thnx a lot
i will try this today and i think it will definately work. thanks again for your help |
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