Jussi Lehtola wrote:
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.
Not what I saw, see attached fdisk output, I only got one partition. However,
that gives me something to consider, at least. Thanks.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001e50e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 523 4200966 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 524 54272 431738842+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 54273 60801 52444192+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 * 524 588 522081 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 589 7116 52436128+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 7117 54272 378780538+ 83 Linux
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