Fodora Core 6 on New Notebook

Dean Browning · External Since: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 8

Hi,

I have a HP DV9000 series notebook with Media Center Edition installed.

When I installed FC6 it would only boot to windows xp.

Any ideas?

Dean

decrepit · External Since: Dec 25, 2006 Posts: 13

On Dec 22, 9:31 am, "Dean Browning" <dcb76....DeleteThis@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a HP DV9000 series notebook with Media Center Edition installed.
>
> When I installed FC6 it would only boot to windows xp.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dean

Did you install grub????

Did you set windows as default boot???

If so you may just be missing the grub boot screen, it's only there for
5 secs by default, (well FC5 is). Watch the boot procces carefully, you
should see a screen that says press any key within 5 secs to enter grub
menu.

If you don't get that, you probably haven't installed grub to the MBR.
You can do that with your DVD.

Dean Browning · External Since: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 8

Yes, I did setup the grub. It just went to Windows Media Center. And I did
set fc6 as default

Dean

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>
>
> On Dec 22, 9:31 am, "Dean Browning" <dcb76....DeleteThis@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a HP DV9000 series notebook with Media Center Edition installed.
>>
>> When I installed FC6 it would only boot to windows xp.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Dean
>
> Did you install grub????
>
> Did you set windows as default boot???
>
> If so you may just be missing the grub boot screen, it's only there for
> 5 secs by default, (well FC5 is). Watch the boot procces carefully, you
> should see a screen that says press any key within 5 secs to enter grub
> menu.
>
> If you don't get that, you probably haven't installed grub to the MBR.
> You can do that with your DVD.
>

Shel · External Since: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 2

I just installed FC6 on a similar machine, the HP 6040us. I think the
problem you are having is that the hard drive is set up with three
partitions, one for Win Media, one for the recovery (approx. 11 GB.), and a
small (1 GB) file for "I don't know". The Media partition on mine was
originally 111 GB and I was unable to reduce it in size to allow enough
space for FC6 to load.. I finally reconfigured the drive manually,
allocating 75 GB for Windows, 39 GB for FC6, and left the 1 GB partition
alone. I the installed Win XP Pro on the large partition, and FC6 on the 39
GB one. That worked. The problem I am now having is that the system works
fine in Windows, but is erratic on boot for Linux. I am still trying to
figure that one out.

Shel

"Dean Browning" <dcb76112 DeleteThis @sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a HP DV9000 series notebook with Media Center Edition installed.
>
> When I installed FC6 it would only boot to windows xp.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dean
>
>

Dean Browning · External Since: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 8

I think it may have to do with the way that media center uses the boot
sector of the hard drive... I think that fe6 was unable to right the grub
where it needed to.

Dean

"Shel" <shel.TakeThisOut@spam.net> wrote in message
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>I just installed FC6 on a similar machine, the HP 6040us. I think the
>problem you are having is that the hard drive is set up with three
>partitions, one for Win Media, one for the recovery (approx. 11 GB.), and
>a small (1 GB) file for "I don't know". The Media partition on mine was
>originally 111 GB and I was unable to reduce it in size to allow enough
>space for FC6 to load.. I finally reconfigured the drive manually,
>allocating 75 GB for Windows, 39 GB for FC6, and left the 1 GB partition
>alone. I the installed Win XP Pro on the large partition, and FC6 on the 39
>GB one. That worked. The problem I am now having is that the system works
>fine in Windows, but is erratic on boot for Linux. I am still trying to
>figure that one out.
>
> Shel
>
> "Dean Browning" <dcb76112.TakeThisOut@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:GHFih.34601$wc5.13522@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a HP DV9000 series notebook with Media Center Edition installed.
>>
>> When I installed FC6 it would only boot to windows xp.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Dean
>>
>>
>
>

Sandgroper · External Since: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 143

"Dean Browning" <dcb76112 DeleteThis @sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Yes, I did setup the grub. It just went to Windows Media Center. And I
> did set fc6 as default
>

On boot up press [Escape] to get to the Grub menu.
By default , Fedora places the HiddenMenu command in the grub.conf file ,
once you get access to Fedora , edit the grub.conf file to remove or comment
out the HiddenMenu command.

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Dean Browning · External Since: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 8

It just brought up the xp menu

Dean

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> "Dean Browning" <dcb76112.TakeThisOut@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:fZVih.2042$x67.1402@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net...
>> Yes, I did setup the grub. It just went to Windows Media Center. And I
>> did set fc6 as default
>>
>
> On boot up press [Escape] to get to the Grub menu.
> By default , Fedora places the HiddenMenu command in the grub.conf file ,
> once you get access to Fedora , edit the grub.conf file to remove or
> comment out the HiddenMenu command.
>
>
>
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