sdenike Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 Ok well I have read up on this before I tried to install the thing.. Anyways I installed Windows XP Pro on my main had after a fresh format. I made the XP install take 15 gig of the 20 gig space... I left the other 5 gig as unpartitioned. Then after I had Windows XP installed I rebooted with the Redhat 8 Disk 1 in the CD Drive, made it install to the 5 gig Partition, and also Install GRUB to the MBR ... after the install was finished I removed the Redhat CD and rebooted. then I get an error saying that the NTLDR is not found, please press ctrl+alt+del to reboot.... ??? Anyways if I have the Windows XP Pro cd in the cd-rom and reboot and choose NOT to boot from the CD-Rom drive then GRUB will start... anyone know how to get the computer not to look for the NTLDR? I have even tried going into a Linux Terminal and doing the grub-install /dev/hda ... and still no go? anyone please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 is grub the default setting for RH? lilo is usually preferable if you have the option in RH...i only really have mandrake/suse experience. if you had the to install lilo reinstall RH with lilo instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snocked Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 GRUB replaced LILO as default bootloader at Red Hat 7.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdenike Posted January 6, 2003 Author Share Posted January 6, 2003 is grub the default setting for RH? lilo is usually preferable if you have the option in RH...i only really have mandrake/suse experience. if you had the to install lilo reinstall RH with lilo instead. hmmm yeah I have tried multiple times to install with grub, i was going to try lilo but it almost seems like it hasn't been installed to the mbr, or its not point to the right drive for the mbr... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hummer Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 hopefully this works the same way as it does in gentoo The easiest way to install GRUB is to simply type grub at your chrooted shell prompt #grub grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit Here's how the two commands work. The first root ( ) command tells GRUB the location of your boot partition (in our example, /dev/hda1 or (hd0,0) in GRUB terminology. Then, the second setup ( ) command tells GRUB where to install the boot record - it will be configured to look for its special files at the root ( ) location that you specified. In my case, I want the boot record on the MBR of the hard drive, so I simply specify /dev/hda (also known as (hd0)). If I were using another boot loader and wanted to set up GRUB as a secondary boot-loader, I could install GRUB to the boot record of a particular partition. In that case, I'd specify a particular partition rather than the entire disk. Once the GRUB boot record has been successfully installed, you can type quit to quit GRUB. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml it's near the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdenike Posted January 7, 2003 Author Share Posted January 7, 2003 much easier fix than all thought.... I just disable the boot floppy drive in the bios and now it works :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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