[Westwales] Dual Boot?

Colin Sauze cjs0 at aber.ac.uk
Thu Jul 29 14:14:43 BST 2004


Its possible that the partitions you've created in fedora are GPT and 
the ones in mandrake are old ones. Run fdisk -l /dev/hda and paste it in 
here.

>
>Fedora Core was installed first and used 'grub' as the boot loader, Mandrake 
>10 was then installed and then the fun started. Neither distribution will 
>recognise the other's partitions so I can't make the system dual boot.  
>modifying grub and adding Mandrake's root and boot directory results in a 
>message: Error 23: Error while parsing number.....  
>
>Can someone please tell me how to get them to see each other so I can dual 
>boot without having to use a third party application (Smartboot Manager) to 
>bring them up?
>
>Regards
>
>Bob Savage
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