On 02/21/2013 04:28 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
After a month of asking how to get dual boot working, on this list,
another support list, in chat rooms, I have not had ONE SINGLE PERSON
tell me that they installed FC18 and it found their other OS installs
on that system, much less offered a hint how to get the other OS
booted. I sadly conclude that Fedora has followed the Windows route
and doesn't recognize other OS.
Tried with XP, or Win7, or BSD, or FC17, all having their own
partition(s). None worked, none were recognized, pasting grub2 stanzas
from previous working OS failed to boot completely.
Very sorry to see this.
I am confused as to what the issue here is, I have no problems
whatsoever. My machine was quite happily booting between F17, Ubuntu
12.10 and Windows 8 without issues with the grub2 boot menus being
written to the mbr on my first drive. I reformatted the boot and root
partitions and installed F18 from the dvd and it picked up windows and
ubuntu in its legacy grub menus (legacy grub is installed from the dvd),
and when I did an upgrade from the repositories, the upgrade to grub2
picked up all my oses without me having to do anything.
regards,
Steve
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I am zero for three trying to get fc18 to dual boot. I have a number
of systems
with fc16 or fc17 currently dual booting, some with XP as well. In
every case,
doing a new install into a new boot and root space, NONE of the existing
installed OS were recognized, only fc18 was left bootable. I also
tried fedup
using the existing boot partition from fc17 in hope that it would
learn from the
grub config file and keep the existing boots. Didn't happen.
Is this just no longer possible, or is there magic, or do I have to
try and
write my own grub2 stanzas, seeing that copying the ones from the
fc17 boot cfg
and adding them to grub2.cfg results in some boot failure mode? It
seems that
fc18 just won't coexist with other Linux versions, and the next
machine I need
to do has XP, fc4, fc9, and is currently on fc13.
Pointer to some useful info?
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