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Hi danleff, sorry for the late reply. Thank you very much for all your help, and your article was well worth it to wait it out, very well done that has to be the best article and how to I have ever found on linux, and fedora to boot, (no pun intended 8). Everything is working well now and I also learned alot more about booting with linux, and just overall learning from someone that know's what's going on. I really was stumped on that one and you really went into great detail and got the message to me (a beginer) in ways that i could start to understand and apply what I read there. Anyways just wanted to give you my thanks and appreciation for all your help and helping another member with the dual boot issues which it looks like you have been doing alot around here, so the article will be of huge value to others. I know it was for me. Thanks a million hope I can do somthing like this for others one day aswell. Take care. MD.

Great danleff, thank you very much, I had thought that might have been what was going on after reading through all the dual boot issues here, but being a beginer I was a bit weary of losing my windows install on my sata drive if I did somthing silly lol. I would have no problem having to reinstall again, I learn that much more about linux. I would also like to use the sata drive as the boot drive if thats the easiest,aswell as being my main drive too. So I gather I will have to set my sata drive set up as boot drive in the bios before i install anything. I await your article with excitement. Michael Thank you for all this.

Thank you, again for the reply. Primary master drive jumper is set to master and attached to the outermost connector at the end of the ribbon cable. Primary slave- nothing attached. Secondary ide- master combo drive (dvd/rw ect.) Secondary Slave- Cd rom drive. The sata drive is connected to sata port 1 Yes you are right about me changing things in the bios, and trying a little different setup during the second install in hope's of learning what to try to get it to work. I know that changing boot order in bios is no good now after reading your other posts, and am not too sure which drive to leave set up asthe first boot drive. I have only just installed it for the second time last night to try and figure it out, and am tottaly willing to re-install/format/partition, the ide drive i would like to install linux on. When in the fedora os boot menue (after hitting enter or any key to select the os i would like) I can select the fedora instalation hit enter and it boots up no trouble at all. When I try to select or let timer count down for default os (in my case this time windows xp) I get the following on the screen: Booting XP rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 And of course when i change the boot order in bios to set my sata drive to boot,instead of the ide drive, it then just loads right to windows, as if thats all that were there. So now i am not sure if I can fix the set up to work, or if i should just go ahead and re install linux on the ide drive again. Thank you again for your trouble. Michael

Hi danleff, I really appreciate your time in helping me work this out, i'm so silly I forgot to put those specs up. The motherboard is an Asus k8n socket 754 (not the k8n-e) I have included the link to the Asus k8n manual below. http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=K8N If you would like me to try anything new out for you than I would be glad to do so, in case you needed some more testing to get your article done. I'm not too sure what else you might want or need to look at but I would be glad to get any other specs and info for you. Also just to clarify my mess of a post here, the primary master ide has the ide hdd waiting for linux, and has no other connection running off of that as a slave. I used my secondary ide for my two cd rom and dvd combo to run off of master and slave like. Also am installing the 64 bit version of the fedora 5 core. I will check back here often. thanks a million, michael.

Hello guys, this seems to be the best place for help with this so here goes, and danleff if you reply I know you must be getting tired of this q and a being asked over and over again, I have read for about 5 days and still am a bit frusterated with getting this to work out. heres my trouble: I Would like to install fedora 5 on my new ide hdd. I have windows xp installed on my sata hdd, I have a full retail version of xp also. The IDE drive is seen as hda The SATA drive is seen as sda In my bios set up the first sata drive is number 3 eg. ide master plug is labled 1 ide secondary plug is labled 2 sata ports (i only have 2 onboard sata ports and no others) 3 and 4. (only have one sata hdd on port 3,) I am unsure what to do here, I have xp installed on the sda drive, and would like to install fedora 5 on the ide master hda It dosnt matter to me which drive will be the master in which I boot from, and just would like to set it up in a way you all know it works well so i am flexable in what to do here. I have tried this 2 times and both times I used default set up and after reading your posts and reply's here this is a nono and explains why this isnt working for me, each time the dual boot menu would come up with a fedora splash screen with a timer on my first install saying continueing to boot to fedora in 3.2.1, and the second install last night, with the same screen saying booting to windows in 3,2,1. on both installs the default boot always booted into it's operating system after left to count down and continue, the first went to fedora if left, and the second would go to xp, unless i hit a key and select. On both of those set ups when i hit a key to select lets say on my second install i tried, it would boot into xp no problem if left to count down, when I selected fedora, i get a screen with the chain loader info but then it would always just freeze and not do anything, the same is true with the first install which did the same thing, only diff there was the default boot os, was fedora. So to sum it all up I would like to keep my windows install on the sata drive, and put fedora 5 on the primary ide drive. I was hoping you could outline a procedure i might try for this, every other set up i read up on and tryd didnt work out, and me being a beginer at linux isnt making this any easier either. Thank you so much for any guidance or help you might have. Michael