On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:10 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Thu, 19 May 2011 08:53:40 -0500 >> Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> > Mine is still XP but assuming that it >> > still uses the NT style boot loader with boot.ini it should be pretty >> > easy. >> >> Nah, boot.ini was too easy for people to find out about >> in google :-). In Vista/Windows 7 there is now a special >> boot manager and some binary format nonsense (hence >> the need for programs like EasyBCD). > > I do the following: > > 1. Create a primary /boot partition as part of the Fedora > installation. I actually re-used the partition for the > lightweight mail reader system (whatever that's called), which > was /dev/sda2. If you didn't get that feature, there should be > an available primary partition slot. > 2. On the screen that allows you to select the location for GRUB, > select your /boot partition. > 3. After installing Fedora, boot with the rescue disk and use fdisk > to make the /boot partition active. > 4. Reboot. GRUB will be your boot manager. Boot Windows from > there. > 5. If you ever need to hide the Fedora installation (for Dell > support, e.g.), just use fdisk to make the main Windows > partition active. To switch back, follow Step 3. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Hi, I have a dell laptop and win7+fedora double boot.. As I remember I did something like that: 1. Created recovery CDs firstly via dell suport applications in win7. 2. Booted with linux system recovery cd and deleted all partitions except win7 main partition. Then moved win7 partition to the end of a disk. 3. Installed fedora 14 with grub. Win7 boot configuration came to group automatically. 4. Windows did not boot for me, so I downloaded Win7 repair cd from internet and fixed win7 MBR. After that windows started to boot. Hope it helps you. Good luck. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
