On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:17 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:

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?

Did you tell grub to write to the MBR, or to the partition where you installed CentOS?

on 5-12-2008 10:17 AM MHR spake the following:

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

It might not have finished the install, and something made it reboot before it had written the grub records.