cnewman

silly me, i got lol. i feel dumb to say this lol. and im wondering if alot of people new to linux dont think of this. i went into my CMOS and needed to change my boot order from hdd01 to hdd00. geeeez. sometimes i laugh at myself. this shoulve been the first thing i tried. well ok now this noob walks into the land of his unknown, and gets chills. i love doing this stuff. thing is i set GRUB to default boot windows and have 2 seconds to hit any key to go into linux. i did notice though that i got a OS failed to boot error when windows went to default load. so im thinking start all over. do a raw xp install, then do another fedora install. because i think somewhere along the lines i screwed up the windows during the fedora install. does this happen often? anything i can do inside fedora to save the XP? before i take hours reinstalling? and thanks for the help by the way. i cant wait to certify and self acclaim myself as a linux pro. and hhelp other. i love helping ppl get into new stuff. its how i started college for computer technology. but any ideas to save the XP now beofre i start?

hi, first off please dont flame me im noob. (heh) im a 25 year old college student who is working alot with computers (micro pc tech) so I decided to venture ahead. I have been interested in Linux for sometime now and used to be part of a technology group that urged me to just rid windooze all together and run just linux. I guess my problem with this is I need it around for things like doing Office products classes etc. Ok now to my point and question. I had a 80GB hda and a 120GB hdb. Windows corp. edition was on hda, and i was trying to put Fedora core 4 on hdb. I burned the DVD.iso, tested it, read many many forums inside and out trying to get the GRUB boot splashscreen to come up. I was totally unsuccessful. lol. who would guess right?.... ok. so finally when the cigarettes ran out and i screwed up not only the fedora install but the windows install and the pepto-bismol ran out i gave up and went to bed. hehe so now i am reinstalling win corp on my main drive, and want to put fedora on the second drive. i have read tons of forums and tried this solution to the issue with no success.this solution here as soon as i get XP corp back up I was wondering if anyone in the community would be willing to get on an IM'r with me to help me go through this. I promise im totally acknowledged in the field just completely new to linux. I thought I was having the same issue that man was, but it seems as I wasnt as I tried the exact steps he took with no success. is there anyone willing to help me out im lost when it comes to the dual boot. im sure I could do the single install fine, I just need help with the dual booting. I know theres beens tons upon tons of threads on this subject, I just cant find the solution. Im a really fast learner so im not asking for much time. i betting the problem is in the way im installing the GRUB on the MBR, but just can not get the spashscreen to come up no matter what way i try to install now after reading inside the liux boot process. i did want to add when i tried the system-config-boot in the rescue menu i got the response kernel not found. im a sounding a mess here? probably. Just know that soon as im educated on the subject im a big person on pay it forward, and will help others all i can. i do flash advertisements as a hobby and on the side for sale, so maybe we could bargin a deal or something, if you had some ad's needing made. heres my contact info MSN messenger and email: cnewman@neb.rr.com AIM: l337husker80 Yahoo: cnewman1980 (im hardly on it but can be) thank you in advance if you've considered my request. -Chris [Edited by cnewman on 2006-06-05 20:09:18] [Edited by cnewman on 2006-06-05 20:15:33] [Edited by cnewman on 2006-06-05 20:32:53]