Fedora Installation :: Reinstalling FC 10 On A Dual Boot Ubuntu - Machine ?
Mar 13, 2009
I'm trying to reinstall FC10 after a foolish mistake I've done that costed me operation of my Fedora partition (uninstalling SELinuxpolicycoreutils).
I have a dual boot Ubuntu - FC 10 machine and delete my old fedora partition with GParted. However when I try to install FC 10 from the live CD using the option "Use free space on selected drives and create default layout" I get the error message:
Could not allocate requested partitions:
Partitioning failed:
The following errors occurred with your partitioning:
You have not defined a root partition (/), which is required for installation of Fedora to continue.
This can happen if there is not enough space on your hard drive(s) for the installation.
Press 'OK' to choose a different partitioning option.
This is the output of fdisk -l :
Partition table entries are not in disk order
My last option is erase everything from my drive including the Ubuntu partition and start over the installation, something that I would like to avoid.
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Jan 18, 2011
I'm about to reinstall Windows XP on a system that I also have Ubuntu installed on. I'm a bit confused how the boot loader works in a dual boot system. After reinstalling XP will I have to do something, like reinstalling GRUB somehow?
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Oct 4, 2010
can I reinstall one os without overwriting the other?
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Sep 20, 2010
I am trying to dual boot Fedora 13 onto my Windows 7 machine. I have shrunk my Windows drive to create 100GB of unpartitioned space, but when trying to install Fedora onto this free space (it is recognized as "Free" space), the installer tells me that there is no space for the partition.
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Jul 13, 2010
Have 2 HDDs, ubuntu 804 is on primary, xp is on secondary. using grub boot loader which defaults to xp.
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My thoughts were that i should just stick the xp cd in, boot her up, reformat secondary, install xp and everything would be fine?
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Mar 23, 2010
I had a dual boot machine with fedora 12 and windows vista and I could use grub boot-loader to switch between two. Few days ago windows got corrupt and I have to reinstall it. I put windows 7 now and as usual it erased grub. So to reinstall I put the fedora 12 installation CD on and followed some usual setup steps. When I got the command line I issued the command "grub-install /dev/sda" (sda not hda because It showed bunch of sda, sda1..) but surprisingly it said grub command not found. I remember doing it before while it worked fine.
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Aug 14, 2010
I am currently running Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 and windows xp in a dual-boot. I am looking to upgrade to windows 7 on the windows side soon but would rather not do a complete rebuild of the whole thing. The two are on separate hard drives so would i just install it on the Windows drive and then follow the instructions at [URL] or is there an easier way?
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Nov 20, 2010
i have been out of the ubuntu loop for several months due to a motherboard problem. i am going to be getting a new 64 laptop for christmas, with a dual core intel processor and windows 7 home premium as the OS.
i am looking forward to having my own computer again will be installing ubuntu on it. but, before i install ubuntu, i would like to know how to remove ubuntu and return the new computer to its original state if it ever becomes necessary.
i was comforatable using programs such as mbrfix along with gparted to accomplish this task with my old computer, but that was a 32 bit windows xp machine.
will i be able to use these programs with my new laptop? i'm unfamiliar with 64 bit systems, windows 7 etc. and how they may differ from the older computer that i was used to.
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Oct 16, 2015
My laptop setup is:
sda1: W7
sda2: FAT16
sda3: /boot
sda4: encrypted LVM with debian (everything besides /boot)
now I've re-installed W7 so grub was overwritten. I've tried the procedure which worked for me previously:booting with the netinst usb in rescue mode, choosing a root partition to mount, using grub-install to reinstall the grub:
Code: Select allmount /dev/sda3 /boot
grub-install /dev/sda
Now I'm on Jessie (stable), and this time this fails, and I am able to mount only sda3.grub-install doesn't exit so I'm assuming it has been replaced by `grub-installer'. also '/boot' doesnt exist so I created it manually.
Code: Select allmount /dev/sda3 /boot
grub-installer /dev/sda
The latter fails with
Code: Select all/dev/sda/proc not a directory
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Feb 3, 2010
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Jan 5, 2010
I've re-installed Windows and now can't boot xubuntu 9.1. I've looked at: [URL]. I did the the fdisk -l and tried mounting each of the partitions but I couldn't mount sda4 which I think is the partition that my xubuntu is located on. A clue that this is the partition is that it is the only one of type extended as I saw in gparted. It was also the only one apart from sda5 that I wasn't able to mount and sda5 I think was an old USB partition. Anything else I could try or are you going to need the output of "fdisk -l" to get a fuller picture.
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Feb 11, 2011
I have 10.10 installed on a Compaq laptop and want to set it up as a dual boot machine. I'm not sure how to 1) set up another partition 2) set up the dual boot and 3) install my second operating system. I'm sure that this is a pretty vanilla thing to do and am frustrated after trying to find out how to do it for a bit now.
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Feb 13, 2011
I have a laptop with just ubuntu on it, but I would like to be able to dual boot windows and ubuntu WITHOUT removing ubuntu first. is there a way to do this?
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Jul 25, 2011
How do I add a win7 hard drive to a ubuntu 10.4 machine already running ubuntu, for dual boot? I really don't want to reinstall either one, so how do I fix grub to give Me a choice of OS's to boot up without using f12 key to choose boot order everytime ? , which works ok right now. I've done dual boots before, with both hdd's installed by installing winXp first then ubuntu, works fine in this order(winXp 1st then ubuntu ) because windows rewrites the boot order leaving ubuntu out of the mix. And even on the same hdd with partitions ,but can I add a hdd?. I removed linux hdd first then installed another hdd, installed win7, then replaced linux hdd. Both boot ok,but only by using the F12 key at start up and choosing a hdd to boot first.
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May 17, 2009
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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Jan 10, 2010
I just set up a dual boot on a system with fedora 12 and XP. XP in on one hard drive (sda) and Fedora on a second hard drive (sdb).
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?
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Jan 7, 2010
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Jun 28, 2010
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I don't want this. I have had weird problems and hiccups since I upgraded. I want to get rid of the newer kernel version and use only the older one. How do I uninstall the upgraded version of Mint 9? I have tried to boot into the older version, but there is no desktop and I have to type on the boot screen and in the terminal. It wants commands I don't know how to give. How do I restore my older version of Mint 9?
I just want one version on my PC in the dual boot with Windows Vista. Can someone tell me how to accomplish this? If you give me terminal commands, please make sure they are copy and paste ready. lol.
If uninstalling involves deleting partitions and doing a manual partitioning and formatting, I'll need easy instructions for that also.
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Feb 14, 2009
I have two hard drives in my PC, ubuntu 8.10 on the first. After reading good reviews about Fedora 10, i decided to give it a try. I installed Fedora 10 in my second hard drive and the distro is great. But my problem is that now I cannot get into the Ubuntu install. I changed the /boot/grub/menu.lst file as recommended by several posts, but no progress. my menu.lst file below. if I have got it wrong or if I need to add anything.
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Apr 26, 2009
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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Nov 18, 2009
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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Nov 19, 2009
I want to setup a machine that can dual boot both Fedora and Ubuntu.
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?
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Jul 23, 2010
I'm using ubuntu 10.04 at the moment and I'm interested in fedora 13.
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 ?
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Aug 27, 2010
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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Feb 6, 2009
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.
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Jan 2, 2010
After much searching I was unable to find any information on dual booting Fedora 12 from Ubuntu 9.10. Here is how I got it to work: If you are installing both distributions it is recommended that you install Fedora 12 first, then Ubuntu. It may be possible to chainload Ubuntu's bootloader (grub2) from Fedora 12's (legacy grub), although I haven't tested to confirm if this works. (If it works for you please reply).
Once you are done installing both distributions, boot Ubuntu and open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal).
When you are in the terminal type:"sudo blkid /dev/xxx", where xxx is the root partition of Fedora 12.If you specified a sepearate /boot partition, then you will need the UID of that partition as well.
You will recieve output that appears much like:
austin@ubuntu:/$ sudo blkid /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Fedora Boot" UUID="e7cd142b-1fb7-4c34-8a2b-b00dd8e7f081" TYPE="ext3" Copy down the UID from the "UUID=" field (without quotes). For example, from the output above, the UID of my Fedora 12 boot partition is e7cd142b-1fb7-4c34-8a2b-b00dd8e7f081.
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Dec 3, 2010
I plan to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10, and I would like to dual-boot it with Fedora 14.
My last experience with Fedora's installation program was not good. It erased my Windows 7 partition without me telling it to. :/
I'm thinking of installing Fedora first and letting it take over the hard drive, then using Ubuntu's good installation program to try and dual-boot...
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Jan 20, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop. Thereafter, I installed Fedora 12 on another partition. Now when I boot, my bootloader lets me select Fedora 12 or Ubuntu, kind of. When I select Ubuntu I get ERROR 13. Now... when I installed Fedora 12, I selected Ubuntu (or I thought) as another OS. Guess I messed up.
I need to know how I would fix this problem. I know it has something to do with GRUB, either its' conf file or the menu list, but I really don't know how to make the changes.
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Feb 11, 2009
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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May 6, 2009
I have a PC with two 40 Gb hard drives. Vista is currently installed on drive 0. Nothing is installed on drive 1. If I switch cables to the drives, Vista will be installed on drive 1. Nothing will be installed on drive 0. If I then install Fedora 10 on drive 0, will it automatically detect Vista on drive 1 and allow me the option of using Grub or something else to boot it? I want to avoid having Vista overwrite my MBR, but I don't want to piss my wife off because she can't access windows for two weeks while I figure out how to customize Grub or install something else. If I need to customize Grub, (or some other boot loader), I would need step by step instructions. Is there a book or online tutorial?
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