[GRLUG] brain dead re bootloader

[Patrick Goupell]

On 05/12/2013 09:06 AM, Jeff DeMaagd wrote:
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> On May 12, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Eric Beversluis<ebever at researchintegration.org>  wrote:
>> The trouble is the boot menu is not showing at all. It goes directly to
>> Windows as the default. I wonder if maybe I set the time it waits before
>> going to default too short. If that's what happened, is there any way to
>> get at the boot menu?
>
> Hold down or repeatedly press the button during boot, I wonder if the boot loader has been replaced.
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>

Press the F8 key during boot for windows safe mode.

If it comes up then the mbr has been replaced with the windows loader.

You can reinstall grub or lilo if you want the current fedora system or 
reinstall a current version.

Patrick