Fedora 8 on 2nd Drive; Vista on 1st

Well, if you see the Fedora loading screen, that generally means that the dual-boot has succeeded but there is something wrong with your configuration so it doesn't boot.

EasyBCD cannot control what happens with Fedora after it hands off the boot process.

However, it sounds like Fedora is getting mixed up with your assortment of IDE and SATA drives (highly not recommended, most OSes (vista excluded) cannot handle that too well!) and somewhere in the boot process it tries to access the wrong drive.
 
Thanks Mahmoud, your insight has been very helpful!!! :smile:

Do you think the use of a hardware IDE to SATA adapter would help? It might trick windows into keeping the same drive order as Linux?

During my install, was I supposed to edit the menu.1st file in the linux partition? or just the NeoGrub file?

Thanks again!
 
Technically, you needn't modify anything. I think if you were using an IDE to SATA adaptor you could install Fedora normally (i.e. let GRUB take over the MBR) and it should work.
 
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