[tariq]

hi,

I have installed red hat linux 9.0 . i also choose the default boot loader ie GRUB. one thing more i have to tell u that i have also win98 and win xp on my system. i have two partitions for linux one root the other is swap. in the installer's boot loader option there were two options Dos and linux i choose dos. now when i start my computer it directly goes to the option win98 or win xp. i recieve no option for booting linux. although i have completely intalled it.

please help
thanx and
bye

[codejockey]

It sounds as though grub was not installed at all (or at least not installed on the master boot record) -- or perhaps you installed Win98 or XP after Linux (which would have replaced grub with a Windoze loader). - I believe you will need to boot using your RedHat CD, and go into rescue mode. From there, you can boot into your Linux installation, review (and perhaps modify) the grub.conf file, and reset your bootloader to grub.

This article http://kb.redhat.com/view.php?eid=94 gives some basic instructions for using rescue mode; a post by PVC9 in the thread http://forums.techguy.org/showthread...hreadid=115840 also mentions how to re-install grub from rescue mode.

Hope this helps.

[tariq]

hi,

windows xp and win98 were intalled on my system before installing linux. but when ever my system starts it goes to the options that contains only win98 and XP ,there is no option for booting linux.

please help

[codejockey]

This suggests that grub was not installed on your master boot record (it may have been installed in your Linux root partition or a floppy). Have you tried booting from your installation CD and using rescue mode to re-install grub on your master boot record?