Booting Fedora Core 4

If your computer has been a Windows-only computer thus far, you are probably used to switching on your computer and watching Windows load more or less immediately, without any intervention from you. Now that Linux is installed on your computer, things will change a little.

Fedora Core 4 has installed the GRUB boot loader to start your computer system. GRUB can start Linux or Windows; if you have both installed, it offers you a choice between the two each time you start. Switch on your computer now. If you followed along with the installation instructions in Chapter 2, “Installing Fedora Core 4,” and installed the GRUB boot loader, within a few moments you should find yourself looking at the GRUB boot display, as shown in ...

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