On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mellert...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/30/2013 01:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 01/30/2013 10:11 AM, Raf Roger wrote: > >> i tried it and still have the windows boot manager when my HDD > boot :( > >> instead of having "system not found" (which is the typicall > message when > >> boot sector is not found in windows) > > > > When you installed, where did you have it put grub? It sounds as > though you didn't put it in the MBR, or if you tried, it didn't > work. Maybe you need to have grub re-install itself and make sure, > this time, that you specify the right place. > One other thing to keep in mind - the BIOS may be set to boot from > the wrong drive. This is especially true with some of the "smart" > BIOSs. They keep tract of what disk you had selected to boot from, > and boots from that drive. > > Another "gotchya" is that the drive order may be different when > booting from a DVD/CD/USB drive then when booting from the hard > drive. So /dev/sda may not be your boot drive when you select > booting from the hard drive. You can usually reset this in the BIOS... > > Mikkel > - -- > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and > taste good with Ketchup! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlEJcSIACgkQqbQrVW3JyMSDEwCfQOmC20HQrg2a3+eCulN/e+mS > EfMAoIWQ0y+2GIwyXObNrtudlaJgusCH > =aZHx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > Hello Mikkel, so i will try to answer to everything in order :-) 1. after disconnecting all other HDD, and boot on the HDD i formatted, everything seems ok and computer requests me a booting device... so i discovered that i have a HDD that includes a boot sector...my D:\ drive... so i need to remove Windows Boot Manager from this one.... but without deleting or losing any data as i have backups on this drive. someone could confirm me that for that i need to type dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 i REALLY do not want to loose data from this HDD :-( 2. in the bios, my first HDD to boot is the one i want to install Linux :-) 3. in bios the first device to boot on is CD/DVD, USB key and HDD i have no CD/DVD except Linux one, and no usb HDD/key connected so no prob :-) I hope i did not forget any question. Al.
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