On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 21:11 +, g wrote:
title Scientific Linux SL (2.6.18-92.1.10.el5)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.img
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in above;
'title' = what is displayed in menu when shown
It will still be an issue if your BIOS can't read far enough into a
drive. The motherboard BIOS has to start reading the drive before the
OS can boot. After the handover things may be more flexible.
Interesting point, would hitting enter then not make a difference as that seems
to allow grub to
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Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Interesting point, would hitting enter then not make a difference as that
seems
to allow grub to display?
either boot 'rescue mode', or live cd, remove 'hiddenmenu', 'rhgb', and 'quiet'
from 'grub.conf'.
this should allow
either boot 'rescue mode', or live cd, remove 'hiddenmenu', 'rhgb', and 'quiet'
from 'grub.conf'.
this should allow you to boot and see what is happening.
I'll try this when I get home. What is bizarre is that it doesn’t even begin the
grub timeout, it boots almost immediately into Windows? If
OK, thanks.I'll do that tonight and see if that works.
amy
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:14 AM, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Interesting point, would hitting enter then not make a difference as that
seems
to allow grub to
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Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I'll try this when I get home. What is bizarre is that it doesn't even
begin the grub timeout, it boots almost immediately into Windows?
'windows' may be first 'title' and timeout=0, if grub is installed.
see example below.
It is just a guess but I think your grub boot MBR is at the beginning
of sda2. Regardless you need to know what is in the MBR so I refer
you to:
http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/GRUB.htm (and do a search
for dd if. The whole article is rather interesting I think)
Funny you mention
I just had this happen to me - I installed the 10 beta and grub
doesn't bring up a boot screen, I've also got Vista on this computer.
grub is there, you just need to hit enter for it to show up when the
screen is showing the blinking cursor after the POST finishes. No idea
how to fix it, but at
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 19:00 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I recall the /boot needing to be at the beginning of the disc an old
legacy requirement an no longer an issue
It will still be an issue if your BIOS can't read far enough into a
drive. The motherboard BIOS has to start reading the
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Joseph L. Casale
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I am trying what used to be a typical scenario for me, I need to dual
boot between XP and Fedora and I had XP installed on the first 100gig
partition of my sata drive, then tried to install the F10 Beta with /boot
in
Any ideas why grub doesn't even appear? I recall the /boot needing to be at
the beginning
of the disc an old legacy requirement an no longer an issue (I think this is
how I setup
my systems before anyway?).
Thanks!
jlc
I just had this happen to me - I installed the 10 beta and grub
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