At 01:45 PM 2/10/06 -0500, Rich Ernst wrote:
Lief Hendrickson wrote:
Can someone help with dual boot install problem?
I installed a second hard drive on a system with Windows XP. The drive
with the existing XP installation is master (hda). The drive is slave
(hdb). The system also has a CD drive. It does not have a floppy drive.
I booted to the CD drive with the Fedora 3 install CD. I installed Linux
to hdb. I selected the GRUB boot loader.
After install, on reboot I got the following message:
"GRUB Hard Disk Error"
Nothing else happens. Any ideas about what the error is and how to fix
it? Has something happened to the MBR? Have I lost the XP installation?
Thanks for any help.
Sounds like there isn't a /boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders
on hdb.
What is your partition setup?
If my first guess is correct, might be easiest to just do a fresh install
to hdb and ensure that there is a minimum 100 meg /boot partition as the
first partition on hdb.
Rich
Would that affect being able to boot into hda?
I used the automatic partitioning during the Fedora 3 install on hdb. How
would I find what the partitions are since I can't boot into either
operating system? I do have Knoppix so I could boot into it but don't know
what to do next. Thanks.
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