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Old 19th December 2010, 11:08 PM
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Dual boot only boots into XP, how to create grub at start?

I have Fedora 13 and XP installed on my laptop. Right now it only boots to XP but I have a Fedora Live CD so is there some way I can use the live cd to boot into Fedora and edit or install grub to show up at boot?
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Old 19th December 2010, 11:43 PM
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Re: Dual boot only boots into XP, how to create grub at start?

IMO, a good idea for this situation is to download and create a Super Grub Disk (get the one for GRUB, not GRUB 2). It's a free and popular utility that you can use first to emergency boot the Fedora system (choose !LINUX! in the Quick Menu) to confirm that its going to boot, work, and make you happy before you change your main boot loader. Then you can use the Super Grub Disk to install GRUB in the master boot record (choose GRUB => MBR & !LINUX! in the Quick Menu). After that, GRUB will launch directly from BIOS. From the GRUB menu you can boot Fedora and probably Windows (choose "Other" in the GRUB menu). If there is no entry for Windows, or the one there doesn't work, then an easy tweak to the GRUB config file usually can fix that.
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