OK, I've been working on this for two days now, and I'm still in the same place I was before. I am trying to install FC3 to hdb (37 Gb) with a 600+ Mb swap space on the same drive. On hda I have a boot sector (~50 Mb), a FAT32 share space (~1.5 Gb), Windows XP Pro SP2 (~100 Gb), and another empty NTFS partition (~15 Gb).
Last night, I found a help file that directed me to intall grub on the /boot at the front of hda then create a file "linux.bin" using dd and then saving it to the FAT32 space. I then moved the .bin file to the Windows partition (C
. The next step was to edit the boot.ini file in Windows so that it looks like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect
C:\linux.bin="Fedora Core 3"
This works as far as NTLdr is concerned and I get the menu. I can then load into Windows with no problem. The problem comes when I try to load into Fedora. It tries to start grub and then just sits. There is no activity on the HDD and the pc is not frozen. Orrignially, I thought it was just trying to load all of the /boot partition into memory, but it doesn't come out of this hang-up. I noticed that stevexff is doing a similar boot, and has no problems booting correctly, so I was hoping someone could point out where I'd gone wrong.
Last night, I found a help file that directed me to intall grub on the /boot at the front of hda then create a file "linux.bin" using dd and then saving it to the FAT32 space. I then moved the .bin file to the Windows partition (C
. The next step was to edit the boot.ini file in Windows so that it looks like this:[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect
C:\linux.bin="Fedora Core 3"
This works as far as NTLdr is concerned and I get the menu. I can then load into Windows with no problem. The problem comes when I try to load into Fedora. It tries to start grub and then just sits. There is no activity on the HDD and the pc is not frozen. Orrignially, I thought it was just trying to load all of the /boot partition into memory, but it doesn't come out of this hang-up. I noticed that stevexff is doing a similar boot, and has no problems booting correctly, so I was hoping someone could point out where I'd gone wrong.