Problems dual booting FC5

surfsilver · #1 18th April 2006, 05:24 PM

Complete newbie!!!
pentium 4 system 1GB ram Master and slave IDE drives XP on master FC5 on slave.

Some background FC2/3,ubuntu,Mepis,centos4.2/3,suse10 all installed and ran fine booted no problem on this system. FC4/5 both seem to install fine but trash my master boot area on hda and only display grub error 15, if I fix the mbr using knoppix I can get windows to boot fine but no FC5. can anyone help I,m thinking the problem is with anaconda as set up for FC4/5 as centos installs and runs fine.

Mtnear · #2 18th April 2006, 05:32 PM

You might want to try fedorajim's method at:

http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/?q=node/2

JN4OldSchool · #3 18th April 2006, 05:35 PM

Grub is generic. I think your problem is you are not installing the FC5 grub and whatever grub is in the MBR is overriding you. If it were me I would just reinstall FC5 and install that grub into the MBR remembering to add the Windows entry during setup.

edit: Just checked out mtnr's link, we posted at the same time. Good info there.

s_esquibel · #4 18th April 2006, 05:58 PM

I used FedoraJim's method. Worked like a charm. I installed GRUB to /hdb MBR (which is the fedora drive) and disconnected /hda so that the MBR is available (I don't believe one can access the MBR on a slave. I then reconnected the drive after install, and had my bios boot to /hdb. No worries.

JN4OldSchool · #5 18th April 2006, 06:42 PM

So the moral of the story is put your Linux partition on the master drive and Windows on the slave.

surfsilver · #6 18th April 2006, 08:10 PM

Thanks to all for your advice I,ll try out your suggestions and post the results.