From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I am experiencing the exact same issue as "duralisis" describes in detail at http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-51741.html. I've tried the same fix attempts as duralist tried with the same unsuccessfull results (booting grub on different drives, etc...). My Configuration is: Dell Dimension 8100 BIOS XP2 hda 40GB IDE with NTLDR XP Pro SP2 hdb 20GB IDE with FC4 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC on 20GB HD (hdb) 2. Tell Installer to put GRUB on hda MBR 3. Reboot Actual Results: System goes straight into XP without loading GRUB Expected Results: Grub should have prompted to boot into XP or FC4 Additional info: Configuring NTLDR to allow booting to FC4 on hdb using bootpart in Windows does not allow booting of FC4 either. See: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-51741.html. I've tried reinstalling FC4 entirely (no change in error), I tried changing the bootloader settings using the recover mode and update installation tools, this gave a Kernel error and said no changes could be made to the bootloader configuration (can't remember the exact message).
The directions I initally had followed can be found at: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/15/2023237 I followed these directions verbatim and still had problems when I selected Linux from the list. I then tried installing Grub to use as a bootloader instead of NTLDR on hda. This resulted in the system booting straight to XP with no Grub prompt for selecting FC4.
I just wanted to also note that the 40GB hda is formated with NTFS. This may be relavent.
I have found a work around for this issue on my configuration: I first booted to the recover console from the first Fedora Core 4 CD opened "grub" and entered the commands as follows: ---code----------------------------------------- # grub grub> root (hd1,0) (since fedora /boot is on /hdb) grub> setup (hd0) (still the mbr of the first hd) grub> quit ------------------------------------------------ Next rebooting the system gave the grub boot prompt, problem solved. This is deffinatley still a bug in the FC 4 installer in that this is not automatically configured as it should be (or as the install wizard suggests).
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Fedora Core 4 is no longer maintained. Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the corresponding Fedora version.