GRUB doesnt load at all with fedora

pencapchew · #1 November 13th, 2005, 01:33 AM

I have 2 hard drives. The master contains windows xp, and the slave is completely formatted. I installed Fedora onto the slave, installation went fine, but when I reboot at the end of installation it boots windows, there's no GRUB bootloader at all. I played around with my mobo a bit so that it would launch from the slave, but then I get an error message, "Error loading operating system"

I have no idea what to do.........help?

**kage** · #2 November 13th, 2005, 04:18 AM

When you installed fedora, did you choose to install grub to the MBR, or the root of the partition? Were any errors displayed? Which version of fedora did you install?

pencapchew · #3 November 13th, 2005, 06:43 AM

i installed grub to the MBR of drive C, the one with windows on it. no error messages that i know of. It was fedora core 4.

**kage** · #4 November 13th, 2005, 06:53 AM

Alrighty. Do you have a live cd such as knoppix or slax handy?

I wrote a guide on reinstalling grub that can be found here:

http://mmdhaven.com/grub.html

See if that might help.

pencapchew · #5 November 13th, 2005, 04:58 PM

No I don't... but even when i set the bios to boot directly from the drive containing fedora i get an error message

**kage** · #6 November 13th, 2005, 09:40 PM

That is because grub is not installed to that drive's MBR, instead it is installed to the root partition where linux is installed. In other words, you will not be able to boot into grub, unless you can install some other bootloader. You might want to just reinstall fedora, since you don't have a live cd, and be careful to select grub to install to the MBR.

**smurfy** · #7 November 13th, 2005, 11:22 PM

It is also possible to edit the Windows bootloader to add an entry for the Linux partition. Search the forum and you will find intructions.