On 04/13/2011 05:12 AM, Stephen P Molnar wrote:
I have a HP Pavillion 9000 Laptop with PheonixBIOS v. F.09.
Yesterday I successfully installed Fedora v14 on a 1GB USB External Hard Drive. Before the installation I reset the Boot Order to:
1.USB Hard Drive (Fedora 14)
2.CD/DVD ROM Drive
3.Netbook Hard Drive (MS Win 7 Pro)
4.USB Floppy
5.USB Diskette on key
When the Fedora installer rebooted the system, the laptop booted into MS Windows 7 Professional (the OS installed on the Netbook Hard Drive). When I attempted to reboot I think that I hit F8 during the early stage of the reboot and Fedora booted with no action from the led indicator for the Netbook HD. Great I thought finished the installation and shut the computer down with the Fedora shutdown option.
This morning when I booted the computer with the External HD running the machine booted into Win 7. Now, the boot order is the same as I set it in the BIOS, but the Boot Menu only has two options: 2 and 3 (in that order). This, of course explains why the computer boots into MS Win7.
Finally, the question”
What’s going on here, and how do I get Fedora to run?
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