Linux on Dell Dimension E520

[Jordan_Hargrave at Dell.com]

Sander,

You should also be able to boot the 2nd drive using the Boot menu (F11 or F12 during BIOS POST).
If you are wanting GRUB to dual boot Windows XP and Linux, there are several HOWTO documents available such as:
 http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

--jordan hargrave
Dell Enterprise Linux Engineering



-----Original Message-----
From: linux-desktops-bounces at dell.com on behalf of Jose_De_La_Rosa at dell.com
Sent: Tue 12/12/2006 10:12 PM
To: sander at sandyman.net; linux-desktops
Subject: RE: Linux on Dell Dimension E520
 
You may have to change your bootable partition (/boot) which is where
GRUB resides. Boot with a rescue CD (such as Knoppix) and use the fdisk
utility, use option "a" to turn on the bootable flag on whichever
partition /boot resides, make sure you only have it turned on for one
partition (not sure what happens if you have more than one, guess it
will boot from whichever the system finds first).

So, you should have something like:

$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250 GB, xxxx bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26532 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       26532      104391   7   HPFS/NTFS


Disk /dev/sdb: 250 GB, xxxx bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26532 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              14       26532   213013867+  83  Linux
......

Try it, you can always change it back if it doesn't work.


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-desktops-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-desktops-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Sander Huijsen
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 3:39 AM
To: linux-desktops
Subject: Linux on Dell Dimension E520

Hi All,

I've very recently purchased a Dell Dimension E520 (Intel Core Duo 2
2x1,86GHZ, 1024MB, 250GB WD SATA). I've also installed a second SATA
drive (WD, 250GB) on which I've installed Fedora Core 6 (i386).
Installation went fine, but for some reason I don't see the GRUB
bootloader. In stead, it justs boots the pre-installed Windows XP MCE
from the first SATA drive.

What should I do to get GRUB installed on the first harddrive in order
to get the GRUB bootloader so I can boot both MCE and Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Sander

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