On 02/21/2013 05:40 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 02/20/2013 11:12 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 20 February 2013 17:28, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> 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.
For what it's worth I have F18 dual booting with Windows okay. I
hadn't replied to your emails because it looks like you're trying to
install alongside another linux (F17) and I'm not sure how to do that,
particularly as the solution I did know (the one I think you were
using, with separate boot partitions and the disc grub chainloading to
each one) doesn't work anymore.
It still does work for me - It is exactly what I have.
So the installer worked for you and found your other OS versions and
built entries for you? Never happened for me.
No. As I already wrote elsewhere in this thread, I am trying to keep all
OSes as separate as possible.
To achive this, I am using as a manually administrated common "/boot"
partition,
grub chainloader-cascades and separate "boot" partitions for each
Linux-installation, which chain-loads other OS other partitions.
Furthermore, in each Linux installations' /etc/default/grub, I have set
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true to prevent these Linux installations' grubs
to add entries for "foreign OSes".
Ralf
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