Fedora 5 doesn't boot

[Belgium-Guy]

Hi all, and by the way thanks for your support in these forums :)
I've installed without problem F5 from DVD boot, after reboot, I've got only WinXP booting, no FC5 menus or anything else.
Before I start here's my config then what I've done :

Pentium Dual Core
2 IDE HD (HD1 20G (boot partition of XP) & HD 2 80G (2 partitions of 40G, one for my XP files, the other for installing F5)
The rest is just classic stuff (2go ram, graphic card,etc..)
I burned the iso dvd
booted with it
installed completly FC5 on partition 2 of HD2 until the end without problem
clicked reboot at the end and got WinXP to boot


I've tried F8 at boot time from BIOS to select boot from HD 2
I've tried F8 from the boot menu of XP to see if I'd see F5 to boot from
I've checked the partition of F5 from XP disk managment, it's not marked as active

I don't know if marking partition 2 of HD 2 (F5 partition) active would work as I don't know if that would remove HD1 (XP partition) as active.
Maybe that is not the problem, I might have forgot something... :confused:

Thanks for the help and greetings from Brussels :)

Olivier

[markjensen]

I am guessing (you didn't specify this critical point) is that you chose to not use the default "write GRUB to the MBR of the boot drive), and instead selected the option to "write GRUB to the first sector of your Linux partition" (or whatever other option it presented).

This left you with your Windows MBR that points to the Windows NTLDR, and yields (guess what!) a Windows-only system.

[Belgium-Guy]

Thanks markjensen for your reply, do you know how I can fix that to test it ?

Oli

[doss]

i had problems getting the default partitions to work...i used the option create custom partitions and it booted right up!

you need a swap partition, a / 'root' partition, and i guess a /boot partition, i also made a /home one but i dont know if that is required i read it was helpful for updating... /boot should be like 250mb and swap should be twice your ram

i dont know if this advice is accurate...im a complete newbie...but it worked for me

doss