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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat After installing redhat, my laptop boot straight to Windows 7 Post 302735299 by thmnetwork on Saturday 24th of November 2012 08:38:42 AM

11-24-2012

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Changing grub to be on the partition with RHEL is probably why it's booting straight to the windows bootlader which is forcing you to do the bootloading the hard way. Installing grub to a partition rather than MBR is for people who have some other bootloader that is expected to be able to chainload to grub. Windows can, but it's the harder way of the two.

It sounds like you haven't really used the RHEL side yet, so I would just do another install but this time leaving grub at the MBR. The RHEL installer should automatically pick up on the fact that you're dual booting and configure the menu option for booting into windows for you, which is why this is the easier way to go: nothing else to do after the install.

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grub-install

GRUB-INSTALL(8) 							FSF							   GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME

       grub-install - install GRUB on your drive

SYNOPSIS

       grub-install [OPTION] install_device

DESCRIPTION

       Install GRUB on your drive.

       -h, --help
	      print this message and exit

       -v, --version
	      print the version information and exit

       --root-directory=DIR
	      install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory

       --grub-shell=FILE
	      use FILE as the grub shell

       --no-floppy
	      do not probe any floppy drive

       --force-lba
	      force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS

       --recheck
	      probe a device map even if it already exists

       INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.

       grub-install  copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specfied by --root-directory, and uses the grub shell to install grub into the
       boot sector.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO

       grub(8), update-grub(8).

       The full documentation for grub-install is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package.  If  the  info  and  grub-install
       programs are properly installed at your site, the command

	      info grub-install

       should give you access to the complete manual.

grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)					   January 2013 						   GRUB-INSTALL(8)