Devin Becker

Hey I'm brand new to Linux, I know virtually nothing about working in it. I downloaded FC3 and installed it onto a second hard drive, which is my slave. WinXP is on my master hard drive. During the installation of FC3, I chose to install it as a dual boot, and now everytime I restart, it brings up a screen that'll load XP in 3 second or I can choose to load FC3. This worked perfect until... I have now decided that I want to set FC3 as a server and put it into a different computer. How do I go about making my computer boot up to XP like before I did the dual boot?

If your master hard drive has a setting for single drive only and you plan to just keep the master drive in the system, this could be an issue. With only one drive in the system, the jumper may need to be set differently. Problem and now solved. It works now, thanks for all your help guys. I love how the problem is always the one that's the most obvious =P

I did that, it still doesn't work. The contents of that file are: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn which seems to be exactly the same. hopefully you guys have some other tricks up your sleeves! I don't want to format both, but I understand if there isn't a way around it.

[boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

After the 5 mins (much longer than usual) it takes to get to the error screen, it says "DIsk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter." My Primary Master is my WinXP drive, and my Primary Slave is my Linux drive. I never changed the bios either.

Ok, I did fixboot and fixmbr, and it said it did them successfully. It's not bringing up the blue "Fedora Core 3" screen that allows me to choose. However, when I disconnect the hard drive containing FC3, it doesn't allow me to start up my computer. Does it make a difference that I haven't formatted it? It just goes straight into windows when both are connected.

Now I have a problem. I went into the Recovery Console for the command prompt and I selected the installation, but it's prompting me for an administrator password. I never set an administrator password...is there a default one or something?

Thanks!