On 09/13/2011 11:13 PM, Bob Lightfoot wrote: > Dear Fellow Testers: > Since F16-Beta.TC1 I have been trying to build a working dual > boot windows xp sp3 and fc16 VM. So far I have not succeeded. What > follows are the particular trials and failures. I would welcome > suggestions as I know some have succeeded in this endeavor. > > 1. The host system is an HP m9040n Pavillion Elite running Fedora 14 > x86_64 with qemu-kvm and libvirtd. > > 2. The initial VM was 30GB VM running windows xpsp3 and fully updated. > I also ran chkdsk /P and chkdsk /R from windows and confirmed it was > clean as far as windows was concerned. I then backed up the VM with tar > -cxf vm_backup.tar.gz VM.img > > 3. Attempting to use the F16 installer and the shrink option resulted > in a fail from an ntfsresize error. > > 4. Using the F16 installer and switching to tty2 and running ntfsresize > and fdisk manually results in a successful install of F16 if I use the > free space option. There is no Windows Option on the grub menu > however. To get a Windows boot option one has to run commands : yum > install os-prober ; grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ; > grub2-install /dev/sda. This windows boot menu option , however, fails > to boot windows instead it returns to the gpxe boot screen and then grub > menu. The Fedora Grub2 Entry works as expected. > > 5. Using Partition Magic from windows to resize the ntfs partition and > create free space allows one to use the F16 installer for a successful > install of F16 if I use the free space option. There is no Windows > Option on the grub menu however. To get a Windows boot option one has > to run commands : yum install os-prober ; grub2-mkconfig -o > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ; grub2-install /dev/sda. This windows boot menu > option , however, fails to boot windows instead it returns to the gpxe > boot screen and then grub menu. The Fedora Grub2 Entry works as expected. > > 6. Using Partition Magic from windows to resize the ntfs partition and > create free space allows one to use the F15 installer for a successful > install of F15 if I use the free space option. There is a Windows > Option on the grub menu and Dual Boot works for F15/WinXP. Using the > F16 Installer and Upgrade with skip bootloader option produces a system > with only a Windows Grub1 entry. It is then possible to manually > bootstrap F16 to boot from Grub1. This Dual Boot F16/WinXP with grub1 > system works fine. > > 7. Taking the F16/WinXP Dual Boot Grub1 system and executing the > commands : yum erase grub ; yum install grub2 ; grub2-mkconfig -o > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ; grub2-install /dev/sda produces as grub2 boot > option for both. This windows boot menu option , however, fails to boot > windows instead it returns to the gpxe boot screen and then grub menu. > The Fedora Grub2 Entry works as expected. > > I realize that a successful dual boot system is not our first > priority, but was hoping the vast pool of experience might be able to > shed some light on this issue as to what I am missing. > > Bob Lightfoot The key for me has always been to make sure windows is installed first and then when installing linux (grub1 or 2) point the bootloader to the linux /boot partition which is almost always some partition other than the first on the first boot drive, i.e., /dev/sda[n] where n is greater than 1. You can then chainload to the windows partition from the grub boot menu. -- Regards, OldFart -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
