Newbie's continuing troubles with Fedora

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Tue Oct 13 10:25:57 CEST 2009


On 13 Oct 2009, at 00:00, Paul Williams wrote:

> Hello Simon
>
> I've found /boot/grub/grub.conf, but I can't open it as I don't have  
> permission. I'm also told I'm not the owner. How do I get in to look  
> at it?

In a terminal...

su -c "cat /boot/grub/grub.conf"

You'll be prompted for the root password you created when you first  
installed Fedora.

Also, while you're doing that - can you post the results of:

su -c "/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda"

..as that might help to find where your windows install went.

Simon.



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