After several difficulties in getting a dualboot machine, i finally resolved to simply use the BIOS as my 'boot loader', since each OS is on a seperate HD Anyways, HD1 has WinXP, loads fine HD2 has a new install of Fedora, but when I tell the BIOS to load from that HD, it comes up with ERROR LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM in simple white text, very quickly, does not even seem to begin loading the OS.

Where did you install the grub/lilo linux boot loader to? I would have thought it easier to fix your dual boot problem and have your linux bootloader installed to the MBR rather than having to go into the BIOS each time. Another way would be to use a boot floppy....insert it to boot linux and remove it to boot windoze.

I like the bootfloppy idea for its simplicity, what command would i run to boot linux from the floppy? [rather new to linux...i promise, ill stop asking questions once i actually have it up and running :-)] also, i tried installing GRUB (since the install I have only offers GRUB) to the MBR, and GRUB would load and give GRUB Hard Disk Error which is probably related to the fact that when I install the operating system, it alerts me that my partitions my not be aligned properly, which will possibly cause problems(fixable) with some boot loaders. Of course, I currently lack the ability to fix that. I have been looking into how to fix partition errors though.

Did you make a boot floppy during installation of fedora? If you want to use the BIOS way then you would need to install grub to the first sector of the second hard drive. You may also find that you have a choice to boot the system from the installation CD. Once you're in use the mkbootdisk command to create a boot floppy. Then just have the disk inserted when you boot for linux and eject it and reboot for windoze. If you do go that way then you will probably want to make at least a couple of disks incase you lose one or it gets corrupted. Saying all that, if you can make a working boot floppy then you should be able to correctly set up grub on your MBR.

hi aldend, create boot floppy mkbootdisk <kernel version> enter through boot floppy Did u install the grub? if installed u check the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. ur linux partion is in hd1 that means hdb if not installed do /sbin/grub-install /dev/hdb otherways set manualy type command grub then enter at command prompt type root (hd1,0) type setup (hd1) type quit try this karayil kingdom