ok, i followed this guide http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...896#post322896 for installing Fedora 4, instead of FC2 ok anyways this was my first time insstalling FC4 on a new hardrive (well a linux free hardware) anyways the installation went fine but when i got to the Parittion manager/Boot section i got really confused
i have 4 Hardrives
2 x SATA 200GB Seagate Hardrives (approximately 180GB) Windows XP on 1 Drive
1 x EIDE 160GB Hardrive
and 1 x EIDE 80Gb Hardrive (partitioned into 2 so its a total of 5 drives (thats what windows see's ok)
ok anyways during the install it didnt even acknowledge the SATA drives but instead recoqnized the 2 IDE drives, ok
i got to the partition part i saw some of my NTFS partitions and those weren't checked so i thought all was good, got ot the next part where it asked about where to install Grub and i saw it had said install to MBR which fedora installer was pointing to my 160GB hardrive not sure if its primary or not but this drive is only backup so installing it on that drive would be pointless am i right?
anyways i instructed Fedora Core to install in 1 the first boot sector of the linux drive
went install went fine, reboot went to windows xp ok i expected this after reading
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...896#post322896.
ok i burned my Rescue CD and booted it, hmmm i think i did everything right i opted it to query my network so i had access to do stuff. but all i got was a console i typed
chroot /mnt/sysimage <--not sure if i was supposed ot put hdc3 or smoething there and it tells me it cannot change root no such file/diretory
=/ so im at this point now what am i supposed to do?
i had tried madrake before like 2 years ago making me 14 but i lacked knowledge in the unix field (funny thing was i could muniplate a Mac OS system/Windows System but when it came ot linux i was a noob, even though its unix), im 16 now and have a fascination with Open Source ive used some Live Cd's such as the latest i gues you can say ubuntu really slow though.
so what must i do now? i dont want to format and then reparition my 80GB drive again copying over the files i place on 1 of my sATA drives i refuse to giveup, the only thing i dont want ot do is use the GRUB bootloader as my primary i want to edit the NTDLR one so i can boot to Linux but i need the .bin file or whatever that corrosponds with booting linux/grub so i can upload it via FTP then place it on my C: drive
i would like not to mess with my XP drive, i built my computer 1year and a half ago and formatted more than 30 times within that year and this one and i have everything perfect on this one, applications,spring fresh clean, ffdshow codecs :P and i would hate to do this twice funny thing was i couldnt find a boot folder when i did this at the command or terminal or w/e
ls
it listed some folders but no Boot =/
please help me!! i would ike to learn as much with fedora core and other distros' ASAP im done with WinBlows (except for gaming) and if i can get the drivers in Linux to work since it recognized my video card then i wont need windows for watching my anime and such so please reply with any help!! thanks oh yea this was my first time installing FC4 on my 80GB Parititoned to 40GB drive so thanks also i was wondering when i set it to boot that drive in my bios it kind of didnt it said error loading OS and i was wondering is this because i have to many drives? or what..also my spects are listed in my signature...
also sorry about the run ons and fragments dont have time to edit 4:30 AM EST very tired :P so when i wake up i expect an answer