[CentOS] Curiosity when installing CentOS 5.1 in addition to W98 & WXP
Jim Perrin
jperrin at gmail.com
Mon May 12 17:21:01 UTC 2008
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:17 PM, MHR <mhullrich at 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?
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