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thanks danleff, I was able to boot to fedora for the first time by following your instructions, but when i reboot it post the same error and i have to make the same change again. do i have then to change grub.conf through rescue cd or should i do something else. thanks again, esprit

Danleff, Thanks for your detailed and informative reply. I've read it carefully and realized that I might have commmitted an error. If I understood you correctly, I should have changed the bios settings before I install or reinstall grub. It seems that i took the order for granted as I only changed the bios setting after the installation of linux. The same thing goes for the reinstallation. I also kept changed the bios order several times in order to boot into windows when I couldn't go through grub I reinstalled grub using grub-install from the rescue CD and did it to hdb Quote: Do you know how to edit grub from the menu screen during the boot process? We can make some changes there and see if they work. If so, then you can add them to your menu.lst file. No, but I would like to know.

Hi guys, I installed fedora core 5 in my second hard disk (hdb1 linux and hdb2 linux LVM) with grub in that disk in order to leave the MBR in the first disk (windows XP, one primary partition, and three logical partitions) primary master untouched. I changed the boot sequence in bios in order to be able to boot from second drive using grub. At first, I couldn’t load grub (the screen would freeze at start-up), so I just booted from the rescue cd and reinstalled grub. This time, the grub menu appeared but couldn’t boot into any of the two OS. I figured to fix the problem for windows by adding couple of lines in grub.conf file to remap device order. Now I could boot to windows. But I am still working to get Fedora booting, where it posts the same on the screen: booting ‘Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054-FC5)’ Root (hd1,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 kernel /vm.linuz-2.6.15-1.2054_ro root = /dev/volGroup 00 /logVol00 rhgb quiet Error 17: cannot mount selected partition Here is how my grub.conf file looks like (after editing, in bold) //start grub.conf default = 0 timeout = 20 splashimage = (hd1, 0) /grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu Title fedora core (2.6.15-1.2054-FC5) root (hd1,0) kernel /vm.linuz-2.6.15-1.2054_ro root = /dev/volGroup 00 /logVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1-2054_FC5.img Title windows xp root (hd1,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) chainloader +1 //end grub.conf and here is my /etc/fstab, //start /etc/fstab /dev/volGroup00/LogVo100 / label = /boot /boot devpts /dev/pts tmpfs /dev/shm proc /proc sysfs /sys /dev/hda6 swap /dev/volGroup00 /log vol01 swap ext3 defaults 11 ext3 defaults 12 devpts gid=5, mode=620 00 tmpfs defaults 00 proc defaults 00 sysfs defaults 00 swap defaults 00 swap defaults 00 //end /etc/fstab and finally the fdisk //fdisk-l Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065*512 = 8225280 bytes Device boot start end blocks Id system /dev/hda1 * 1 1785 14337181 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 1786 4866 24748132+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA) /dev/hda5 1786 3602 14595021 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 3603 3666 514048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7 3667 4866 9638968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065*512 = 8225280 bytes Device boot start end blocks Id system /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 14 9729 78043770 8e Linux LVM //end fdisk -l sorry for the long post but I wanted to be as clear as possible Thanks in advance, esprit