I got half way through an installation of CentOS on a box that has Window$ 98 in the first partition and Window$ XP in the second, where CentOS was designated for partitions 3 (/boot - 128MB) and 4 (/) and had some strange results.
During the install, I changed the default OS to boot to Window$ (because I rarely use this machine, but others who don't have a clue use Wxx), but then while the packages were downloading, I left the machine alone. When I came back, it had rebooted to the DVD, so I pulled it out and rebooted again.
It came up in the Windows boot selection screen (W98 or WXP), and never stopped at grub.
Should I not have set it to go to Windows by default, or is this something different?
Thanks.
mhr
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:17 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
Did you tell grub to write to the MBR, or to the partition where you installed CentOS?
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
Did you tell grub to write to the MBR, or to the partition where you installed CentOS?
I looked at that screen and took the default, which, IIRC, was to write to the MBR. (I couldn't see the point of writing to the partition....)
mhr
on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following:
It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot before it had written the grub records.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
I figure I'll just start over and sit there to watch while I read a book or something. (sigh)
Thanks.
mhr