I've been wrestling with this for the last couple of days - I can't dual boot XP and F10.
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I did notice when installing F10 that it remapped my drives, making the WIndows and therefore boot drive /dev/sdb and the Linux Drive /dev/sda. I know this requires changing some of the drive designations (hd0,0 etc) but I've done it twice and ended up only being able to boot into Windows.
I currently have XP installed on a NetBook (Samsung NC10), and would like to run Fedora on it. I'm currently looking at putting Fedora onto a flash memory card to test it works OK on the hardware, before installing it to the hard disk. The problem I've got is that the boot sector is occupied by WDE software (TrueCrypt). Will this pose a problem for dual-booting XP with Fedora, or will GRUB move the boot loader in the usual way?
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I installed grub on the Fedora disk so as to not touch the windows disk at all.
Prior to installation, in the bios, I set the Fedora disk (sdb) first in the boot sequence, and then XP (sda) so that the grub loader would boot up by default. (If I set the windows drive first then the system bypasses grub and loads straight into windows.)
My system can now boot up into Fedora fine, but if I select windows from the grub loader menu I just get a blinking cursor - windows will not boot.What do I have to do so that grub can boot into XP?
I need to remove my dual boot of WinXP & F9 to replace them with F10. Should I format the disk before installing F10? I'm still a beginner in Fedora. & How is the fedora 10? do you recommend replacing it compared to F9?
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I'm looking to dive right into this whole GNU/Linux thing, and am looking to try out as many distros as I can. I've already installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, and want to dual boot fedora 10 with it. How hard would this be for a total linux n00b like myself?
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C: drive 40GB -- windows XP NTFS
D: drive 20GB NTFS
E: drive 20GB NTFS
tell me the steps to install fedora 10 as dual boot option.
I've successfully used Fedora 11 from a USB stick as a live cd iso. Everything seems to work on my netbook so i want to try installing it but I need it to be a dual boot with windows. How can i do this? And will it definitely work or are there issues (I've read that F11 has problems installing if not taking over the entire HD)?
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View 5 Replies View RelatedI have managed to reduce the default LVM F8 install to make room for F10... See Bare metal backup:
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And shrink the partition:
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I now have about 50G free on a 80G drive. The F8 system has a small /boot and an LVM partition that includes swap. What I want to do is install F10 WITHOUT LVM on the free space. Access to the F8 LVM drive would be a plus but not complete necessary. I just want to keep the F8 system as is until I get set up with everything under f10, which may be a bit. I am not sure what to enter for mount points for the custom drive layout. I need a small swap partition (I don't want to use F8 swap because it will be going away in the future, for example when I install F12 and have dual boot F10/F12 system. What should I have as primary partitions and which as secondary?
How do I set up the boot? Grub?
Only Fedora 11 is on the boot menu after replacing Fedora 10 by new install on a 10+WinMe dual boot computer. The WinME partition is available after booting Fedora 11. How do I add WinME as a boot choice?
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I would like to try out fedora 12 using dual boot method. i currently have ubuntu karmic installed with grub2 and ext4 partitions and would like to dual boot with fedora 12. if i just install fedora 12 will it automatically pick up ubuntu karmic as welland add it to grub. will there be any problems since fedora uses grub legacy and ubuntu uses grub2?
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The machine already has F11 installed and the bootloader is in /dev/md0 partition.
There are mounts:
I added another drive pair because I want Ubuntu on its own LVM partition on separate drive array.
So how do I add Ubuntu to this now?
fresh installed F12 on secondary drive, XP on primary drive. Then swapped drives making F12 primary. I boot into F12 fine, I also get menu to boot Other but when I choose this option instead of going into XP I get error 22 no partition? I can swap the drives around & boot into windows fine. I know I must not be pointing or having F12 pointing to the correct partition for XP.
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Can I install Fedora 12 on a clean sata drive and have it run alongside my current Windows XP Pro? How do I do it?
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Here is my grub.cfg file
I'm going to delete my sda1 entry (mandriva) and put fedora there instead. Will Fedora automatically detect my other partitions? If not, will copying and pasting the other entries into fedora's grub.cfg ?
I installed Ubuntu, and then Fedora so I could choose between the two, but after installing Fedora I thought I would get a choice, but it just boots to Fedora. Here's a screenie of my gpart and a paste of my grub. Can you tell where I screwed up, and how to fix it?
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I have a netbook with windows 7 installed and want to put Fedora 13 on also. Im not new to computers per se but new to linux. I did install Ubuntu 10.04 but didnt like it that much. I have tried Fedora 13 on my usb pen before installing and found it much nicer to use than Ubuntu.I do have an external dvdrw to install this if its easier.My query is..How do i dual boot this? I tried but every option i see isnt the option i want. I dont want to chose "use free space" as this will take all the rst of the 250gb hard drive i have and leave me nothing for windows. IF i partitioned the hard drive in half, how would i do
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so now what? Also this is my partitions> http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9853/unledtlh.jpg
i just wanted to know that during a dual boot installation with windows xp, if fedora is installed after windows, where does the GRUB go on the hard disk? In the /boot partition or the MBR of the hard disk?
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