Linux on Dell Inspiron

Installing Fedora 10 on Dell Inspiron 1525 can be a big pain. Because once you install the windows vista would not load. There is nothing to panic, (though personally it scared me out of my wits). The problem can be rectified, as follows

Open the grub.conf file for editing. there change the hd0 to hd1 in the location i.e. the expression (hd0, rootnoverify) to (hd1, rootverify). this problem occurs because of the dell media direct previously installed causing the hard disk no of os to be hd1 instead of hd0.