On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 18:41 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm putting Win7 on a machine for testing on a project, on bare iron instead of > a VM. Since I hate to waste a machine for 60-90 minutes a week of test, I want > to mix with Fedora. I asked a month or so ago, and got some thoughts about > adding Win7 to an existing Fedora machine, from people who hadn't done it (Win7 > wasn't out yet). > > After a slew of install issues, a clean install was done and the Win7 worked. > Now to boot Fedora using the "Windows boot manager." No, that doesn't work, > checked that the grub-install had been in the OS partition rather than the MBR, > still no boot. > > Reinstall Fedora, still doesn't boot from WBM. > > Run grub-install into MBR, boot into Fedora, add chain load to grub.conf, > reboot. Win7 is in the boot menu, but say "unknown executable" instead of > booting. Reinstall Win7 again, run project required tests. > > Hopefully at some time will be able to put Win7 in grub menu. I had no trouble getting Win7 booted with grub, it worked as with every other Windows I have dealt with. Note, however, that at least in my case fdisk reports Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 13 10449 83824640 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 * 10449 10475 204800 83 Linux (+ an extended partition which contains /, /home and swap) These were created by the Windows install upon partitioning. I only gave some 80GB of disk for Windows and it created two partitions: /dev/sda1 (the Windows boot partition) and /dev/sda2 (the Windows system partition). My grub.conf states title Windows 7 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 so you need to use the Windows boot partition, not the Windows system partition for the chailoader to work. My grub is (naturally) in the MBR. -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
