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I installed fedora core 11 on my laptop(dell inspiron 1525), which has windows vista alreadyi nstalled on it. After installation it says that the installation is complete and please ...
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No Grub screen after installation
Hi
I installed fedora core 11 on my laptop(dell inspiron 1525), which has windows vista alreadyi nstalled on it. After installation it says that the installation is complete and please reboot the system.When i reboot it is directly booting into windows.
The os selection screen is not shown .... Can anyone please help....
Thanks
Vinay
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Hi and Welcome !
Was installation succesfull? Any error message?
Try to re-install Boot Loader. Easiest way is download SuperGRUB CD or USB from here and boot up from it. Select GRUB Re-installation from it Menu.It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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Installation was successful ....
There were no errors..
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Something is wrong with GRUB Boot Loader only. Try SuperGRUB disk as I suggested earlier.
In case ot doesn't work, boot up from LiveCD and execute this in Terminal
Post output here.Code:/sbin/fdisk -l
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I Have seen the grub.conf file using the rescue mode everything is fine....
It shows both fedora and vista and the partitions in which they are present correctly ...
I will try the super grub disk and let you know
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I tried using SGD....
I couldnt find the reinstall grub option.....
Grub => MBR & LINUX (1) Auto ... I tried this there was an error
file not found
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Are Vista and Fedora installed in same hard disk?
Execute grub-install /dev/sda command in rescue mode. Post output here, if any.
Its better if you post output of fdisk -l command here.It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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when i gave the grub install command ...
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
is the out put
For fdisk -l
Device boot start end system
/dev/sda1 1 5 dell utility
/dev/sda2 6 1918 Fat16
/dev/sda3 * NTFS
/dev/sda4 w95 ext
/dev/sda5 FAT16
/dev/sda6 ntfs
/dev/sda7 ntfs
sda2 is fedora
sda3 is vista
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Why /dev/sda2 has FAT16 Filesystem? Are you sure that Fedora has been installed in /dev/sda2 and it has FAT16 filesystem?
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Ya .... Its showing as fat16 ..... I formatted it as ext3 but its showing like that i donno why...
and in the grub file
the only doubt is
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img
instead of this format for linux partition .... after ro root = AB34 ....
There are hexadecimal numbers instead of the text given above after ' root = '
Is this the problem??
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