Knad

Hey I brought a cheap cam off ebay a while back with no brand name (lol) And was wondering if there was a command i could use to probe it (in USB) to find some data so i can google for a driver/module?? Thanks /Knad

Finally it works after alot of fiddling with grub.conf i got it to work it thought it was on my primary HDD rather than secondry. My solution: BIOS boot to secondry HDD (HDD-1) GRUB loaded, with linux and referancing HDD-0 MBR for windows All working now, and upgraded to FC5. Thanks for all your help /Adam

I have my grub.bin file as 512 bytes, and i am getting GRUB _ when i select Linux at boot. When i go into linux-rescue then grub, and type: grub> root (hd1, <TAB> It tells me my first partition is small and '/boot', and the other one is large and just got a '/' I THINK grub is installed on hdb0, with fedora on hdb1. How do i print out, or save to a floppy the output of 'fdisk -1', then i could output this to you. Thanks for your help, sorry to be a pain Adam

UPDATE: After reading other threads, i tried to recreate a grub.bin (or whatever you wish to name it e.g. boot.lnx) using (from the 'Booting Linux' section os http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/2337): dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=grub.bin bs=512 count=1 Then adding this to boot.ini (c:\grub.bin="Linux") When i rebooted and selected 'Linux' i got a screen with: GRUB _ In the top left, and it just stopped there. More info: when i type: cd /boot/grub cat grub.conf I can see that it seems to be pointing to the correct place for Fedora and windows, but i am slightly worried as it says (i guess the '#' means its quoted out, but just it says: #root hdb (or #boot hdb ... not sure) I am pretty sure this is what it says, but i do not know how to print or save this to s floppy to use in windows to post it (linux noob) Thanks for any help Adam

Change the boot order in the bios to the second drive, say HDD0 to HDD1. What happens. I have just tried this, and it says: Verifying DMI Pool Data.... _ Then just sits there doing nothing, no HDD activity. Thanks for all your help so far /Adam

Sorry. Thanks for reply..i will try to answer: What exact dd command sequence did you use? Did you reference hdb1, or hdb2? firstly i used: chroot /mnt/sysimage then i used: dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=boot.lnx bs=512 count=1 I then transferred this to a floppy (using mcopy) and put this into my C: on windows (the file (boot.lnx) read as 1kb...is this right?) and referanced it in boot.ini as: c:\boot.lnx="Fedora Core 4" Where did you get this set of instructions? What is the total line command, as I don't know what \linux.....ust means. Using the raw boot.ini command sequence like this is only correct under certain circumstances.: boot.ini : multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Linux="Fedora Core 4" -------------- I installed fedora the first time, keeping MS bootloader in the MBR. I tried many different methods on different sites and forums, to no avail (whoops, i noticed you said this was bad idea) So... I reinstalled fedora last night (re-partition my hdb), and tried this time to let it overwrite the MBR, but it still boots as the MS one is still there... I hope i have answered some of your questions, and would be very grateful for any help. Preferably i would like to keep XP installed how it is on hda (master drive), and would like to install fedora on my slave. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Adam

Hello, First off i have never used linux before in my life, i have used all versions of windows from 3.1 to XP Pro, also DOS, but this Linux sounds good...and well isnt microsoft so i wanted to give it a go... So...I have 2 Hard Drives (IDE): HDD 1 (hda) - 80gb, NTFS, Windows XP Home HDD 2 (hdb) - Did a standard install of fedora core 4 on this Problem: I cannot boot into fedora Tried: 1 - boot.ini point to multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\Linux......ust gives me totally black screen with HDD light on, no HDD sounds though 2 - Lunux Rescue - make a boot.lnx file as in other posts....c;opy to floppy.....put in C: on windows...add to boot.ini.....get black screen with the underscore flashing in the top left (no HDD light) 3 - Update Fedora Install.....try and tell it to put GRUB on MBR (i know it says not to)......did not do this as it said no change to kernal ??? 4 - grub-install /dev/fd0 ... failed, cant remember why Any suggestions? Thanks /Knad p.s. i did fdisk -l and this is roughly what i got (from memory): hda - NTFS hdb1 - /boot ...linuz pertition of some sort, small...seems correct for boot partition hdb2 - /...seems to be main fedora bit