Dual Boot problem, not like everyone elses! Please Read!

[Stradigos 0]

Hello,

 

I recently just downloaded the DVD ISO for Fedora Core 5 and installed it with the intention of dual booting. However when I boot up it just goes to XP. And I think I know why:

 

I installed it to a partition on my D Drive and not C...

 

So how do I get it to Dual Boot when the fedora files aren't on the C drive. It looks like the dual boot software doesn't even pick it up, so is there a way I can configure this to where I can dual boot from two different drives? Or do I need to uninstall fedora and make room on my C Drive?

 

By the way, how do you uninstall linux? format?

[danleff 0]

Well, first of all, your problem is the same as many others.

 

I assume what you are saying, is that you have Windows XP on your primary hard drive and Fedora installed on a second physical hard drive in the system?

 

Drive "C" and "D" are windows terms and don't mean much, unless you clarify this. In Windows, you can have a "C" and "D" partition (not drive) on the same physical hard drive. C and D don't necessarily mean different physical hard drives, unless you set a C and D partition on the same drive.

 

 

See this thread.

 

Or see thsi thread.

 

Or see this thread.

 

All these threads speak to installing Fedora on a second hard drive on the system.

 

When you install Fedora on a second hard drive, and choose the default settings while doing so, Grub (the bootloader) is often installed on the second hard drive. Fedora assumes you will be booting from the same hard drive that you installed it on, unless you tell it so otherwise.

 

If this is not the case in your situation (you have one physical hard drive only on the system in question), let us know.

 

if you did install Fedora on a second physical hard drive, then you need to make sure that you choose Grub to be installed on the Master Boot record (MBR) of the primary drive, which is usually hda (the primary master drive in Linux lingo).