Huge Newbie question

[dereke]

I installed Fedora, verbatim pretty much from the guide, and it does not boot. I boot directly to Windows. I have two sata drives. sda is winxp and sdb is fedora. The bootloader is on sda MBR. Any assistance would be appreciated. (not the same conditions as previous post)
Thanks.

edit: My bios HD boot order is sda, sdb.

[taurus]

Maybe you want to use one of those LiveCD Linux distro to boot your machine, copy, and post your /boot/grub/grub.conf here to see why it doesn't boot FC4!

[dereke]

Here is my grub.conf and fstab.

grub.conf:
#boot=sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

fstab:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sys defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

[dereke]

This is a working, and easy, solution: (thanks Patiek)
Since windows was booting fine, original MBR on sda ok.
Unplug sda from sata port #1, keep sdb plugged into sata2 port #2.
Rerun whole install.
Fedora creates a new MBR for the secondary drive.
Continue with installation untill Fedora is working properly.
Shut down. Plug in sda into sata2 port #1.
Switch between Fedora and sda (WinXP for me) via BIOS mobo boot order.


Procedure was recommend since there were other unknown conflicts in my disaster of an installation attempt :cool: