Configure grub dialog missing

[Boris Cat]

Hi all

Well I've taken the plunge and decided to installl Fedora on my XP box

I have a K8N neo4 M/B running a single 300 gig sata drive

I've resized the drive using a gparted live cd to 250 gig for windows ( I like my games) and a 50 gig free space for Fedora , everything ok , gparted shows the xp bit as the boot bit.

Running the disc 1 (of either the 64 bit version or the 32 bit version I installed on the other older pc)

I get the keyboard/langauge dialog and the partion setup dialog no problem(use free space for fedora) then the installer skips the boot loader dialog and goes straight into the network setup dialog

Whats going on? does the installer automatically install grub

The partion dialog shows
Sda1 winxp NTFS
Sda2 as /boot
Sda3 as the logical volume one

Help! Lol

Boris

[SlowJet]

The default grub install will put the boot sector on the drive mbr of the drive selected, then point to Windows from the /boot partition as defined by chainloader +1 in /boot/grub/menu.lst (this should have shown up on the install as other, which you now know has to be edited to say WinXp and the check box clicked to make Windows the default boot.)

To make Fedora work correctly, you need a /boot partition then a (/, swap, /home) which all be defined as LV's in a PV-VG set. The default install creates a /boot and a VG with LV's of (/, swap) but no separate /home.

To chage the grub install click on the check box at the bottom of the install screen that shows the drives and it says something like "Advanced install options". This would allow to put the boot sector on a different drive mbr or on the first sector of another /boot partition so the grub menus for each OS can be chainloaded (which saves having to change menu.lst versions when the kernels are updated.

It looks like you took the default install so your grub should be ok and the WinXp should be called Other.

SJ

[Boris Cat]

Yupp click on review and mod partioning thingy and the next screen after the display of the partion layout is the boot loader config screen...... why did'nt I click on the 'next' button?

Oh well looks like I'm an idiot.......... again

Boris

'and tommorrow's task...... setting up and configuring a fedora 6 64 bit instillation...

instillation? jeez I'm going from bad to worse now More beer is needed...and curry