I'm looking to install Fedora Core 4 on a second hard drive with WinXP
on the first one. I checked out the FC4 install guide and it said that
it uses GRUB as a bootloader. That's fine, but the part that got me
confused was where to put GRUB. It said not to install GRUB over the MBR
if you wanted to keep Windows, so do I put GRUB on the first 1024
cylinders on the second hard drive or so after the first 1024??

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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:29:27 GMT, Lucas Raab wrote:
> I'm looking to install Fedora Core 4 on a second hard drive with WinXP
> on the first one.

Nothing wrong so far.

> I checked out the FC4 install guide and it said that
> it uses GRUB as a bootloader.

Yep. Key word here is _bootloader.

> That's fine, but the part that got me
> confused was where to put GRUB. It said not to install GRUB over the MBR
> if you wanted to keep Windows, so do I put GRUB on the first 1024
> cylinders on the second hard drive or so after the first 1024??

Hmmm, normally the _bootloader_ is what the PC's bios calls to load
the OS. It is located in the Master Boot Record (MBR).

So, the question has become which boot loader do you want to run with.

As for the 1024 part, just how old is the bios on the mother board.

grub can boot either OS from the MBR. You can use
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search for all sorts of
example configuration examples.

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:29:27 GMT, Lucas Raab wrote:
>
>>I'm looking to install Fedora Core 4 on a second hard drive with WinXP
>>on the first one.
>
>
> Nothing wrong so far.
>
>
>>I checked out the FC4 install guide and it said that
>>it uses GRUB as a bootloader.
>
>
> Yep. Key word here is _bootloader.
>
>
>>That's fine, but the part that got me
>>confused was where to put GRUB. It said not to install GRUB over the MBR
>>if you wanted to keep Windows, so do I put GRUB on the first 1024
>>cylinders on the second hard drive or so after the first 1024??
>
>
> Hmmm, normally the _bootloader_ is what the PC's bios calls to load
> the OS. It is located in the Master Boot Record (MBR).
>
> So, the question has become which boot loader do you want to run with.
>
> As for the 1024 part, just how old is the bios on the mother board.
>
> grub can boot either OS from the MBR. You can use
> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search for all sorts of
> example configuration examples.
>

My computer is only a 1.5 years old, so the BIOS is fairly new.

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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:10:23 GMT, Lucas Raab wrote:
>
> My computer is only a 1.5 years old, so the BIOS is fairly new.

Then 1024 limit will not exist for grub.