On Jun 20, 2:12 am, Nico <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 Jun, 23:33, Mike Silva <snarflem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I posted this earlier to linux.redhat.install, but I think that may be
> > a low-activity group so I'm posting it here. I'm new to Linux, though
> > I've been using PCs since they came out. I've got a machine running
> > Vista and I added a 2nd hard drive to try out Linux (both drives are
> > 160GB). I have Fedora Core 6 and have run through the installation
> > and modify install (many times now!) and when I reboot I never get a
> > choice of OS to start up - the machine always comes up in Windows.
> > Frustrating!
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> > Here is my drive information as given by the install program:
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> > VolGroup00 152480
> > LogVol01 swap 1792
> > LogVol00 ext3 150688
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> > Hard Drives
> > /dev/sda
> > /dev/sda1 ntfs 146726 start=1
> > /dev/sda3 ntfs 5899
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> > /dev/sdb
> > /dev/sdb1 /boot ext3 102 start=1
> > /dev/sdb2 VolGroup00 LVM PV 152523
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> > So, can somebody tell me what I need to do differently to make this
> > all work? I'm amazed and disheartened that I am already stuck on page
> > 1, sentence 1.
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> You've left out some vital information. In particular, what is your
> bootloader? Grub, or LILO?

Sorry, Grub

> What do your boot loader configuration
> files say?

I don't know. I don't even know where I would find such files.

> And where did you install the boot loader?

The config program gave me two options, the MBR and (I think, from
memory) the /boot partition on the 2nd drive. I know the options
involved the MBR and the Linux (2nd) drive, and I tried them both on
different installs with identical results.