NEED HELP! not booting

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Please bare with me I know very little about linux, I have been playing around with KNOPPIX for a while and decieded to take the leap to fedora. So i got a book from the library and installed FC3 from a DVD!

I tryed to install fedora 3 into my computer with 2 hard drives 1(80g w/ windows XP) and 2(40 w/ Fedora Core 3) the install worked fine accept i had no clue what i was doing with the GRUB boot loader. my dell hard drive (#1) is partitioned into 3 diffrent parts i selected the third partition to boot by default, which i labeled "Windows XP" but there was also another parition called "other" anyways it rebooted but when it rebooted there was no way to get into Fedora. Does any one know what I did wrong and what i can do to fix it?

TIA!!!!

[jhetrick62]

I'm not real good with GRUB problems, but usually XP has to be on the first partition with Linux on one of the later partitions and GRUB will direct it to the proper location. Works on all of my boxes. I question having XP on the third partition. Did you install GRUB on MBR, ring 0?

Jeff

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Did you install GRUB on MBR, ring 0?..... i have no clue what your talking about... i just went through the regular installation of FC 3 and this thing came up to configure GRUB

but does anyone have any clue on how to boot to fedora or should i just do a re install...

[urzasrage]

Reinstall grub

Boot from your Linux CD.
Type in linux rescue
Select your language, then select the keyboard type
Next, you are asked if you would like to start your network interface. You don't need network for this, so choose "No"
Next you'll be asked if it's ok to search for your existing Linux partitions and mount them under /mnt/sysimage. Choose the "continue" button.
In the next step your Linux system was found and it will be mounted under /mnt/sysimage for writing. Choose ok and you will be in the rescue console.
When your get to a command line, type in chroot /mnt/sysimage
The type in grub-install /dev/hda

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urzasrage thankss soo much i hope it works because the DVD has 2 mode 1 you type in KNOPPIX and it boots knoppix and 2 you type in linux and you install fedora so thanks for your help im going to reboot!