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Old 06-28-2005, 10:43 AM   #1
einstien
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tried to install fc4 grub problem


hallo all

yesterday i desided to format my dual boot pc and install windows and linux agian

so i formated my pc in the windows install then after windows finished installing i enterd the fedora core 4 disc and started to install it as well

when fedora finished to install and i rebooted my system all that appeard on the screen was the word "grub"

now i had this problem before with fc2 but this time i was not able to fix it
with the same sfdisk command
please help me figure it out

thanks


 
Old 06-29-2005, 09:08 AM   #2
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hallo

hallo all

ok i kind of succseded in fixing the problem but i still need help

what i did is i inserted the first disc of fedora core 3 not 4 and enterd rescue mode

then i ran the command that didnt work for me in fedora core 4 rescue which is: sfdisk -d /dev/hda : sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda

this time it worked i booted my pc and up came grub and i choose to boot fedora core 4 it worked great i got into my fedora core 4 and everything

but then when i booted my computer agian and tried to boot windows
it wrote me the command from the grub the:
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1


so windows doesnot start only linux...

how can i fix this? please help

 
  


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