I have two partitions, one fedora and one for windows. I meesed my fedora so I tried to install it again. I did al okay in my linux partitions but the installation stopped. maybe a bad image. Now, when I boot my system I only get the grub> What command can I run to boot windows at least?
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I've set up a triple boot xp, vista, and fedora 10. The problem is that I want to remove Fedora grub, so the bios can give me all 3 choices to boot from, be it xp, vista or fedora. At the moment fedora grub boots, from there i am able to choose other operating systems. But I want to use windows boot loader, from there i would like to have windows give me the choice of different OS's to boot from.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHaving a major issue with my laptop. I am unable to boot into my Vista installation.I am currently posting this through my Fedora 11 installation which I had already. If anyone is interested, the BSOD error is:
0x0000007B (0x80399BB0, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
As far as I know, a '7B' BSOD is usually a hard disk error but I am 100% sure the HDD is fine as I can read and write from both Fedora and Knoppix without issue. Steps taken so far: Obviously, I have tried the usual steps of trying to start windows in safe mode, last good config, and all of the F8 options. When they failed, I used fedora to check for some solutions online (Mostly useless answers from MS) and I found one successful case when a person flashed his BIOS back to an earlier time. Unfortunately, I cant get the BIOS update I got from the Dell website to boot from a USB drive (Says invalid boot disc - the BIOS on it is in the .exe format which I can't use in linux) and I do not have a floppy drive on the laptop.
So, I put in my Dell drivers and utilities CD hoping that it would give me some option to update (Or roll back) the BIOS but there was no such option. However, it did give me a load of diagnostic options including repair options by symptom so went with the "Unable to boot from BIOS". Unfortunately, that didnt help me at all. So, I got my Vista installation disc (OEM supplied) and managed to get to the repair menu (Which I had among my F8 options anyway) but this also has the option to reinstall. Unfortunately, it states that "Upgrade is unavailable" and that a clean install is the only thing I can select (At the expense of my files and settings).
As for the repair options, the automatic recovery doesn't seem to find any errors, asks to reset and see if all is well (It isn't). For some reason, system restore doesn't detect any restore points. There are no windows memory errors detected and I have no backups. So, i'm left with a command prompt that, by default, is asking for a file in this folder: X:/WINDOWS/System32/ I have no idea where it is getting the X: drive from - I have C and D drives for windows only. As per another online guide, I tried:
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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?
Dual booting Windows 7 and Fedora 15. What I would like to know is if I can change the boot order to boot Windows 7 first and Fedora 15 as other or second.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi had windows vista and i installed fedora in the same HD, but now when im at the bootleader screen i got 2 options "fedora" and "other". i can boot fedora normally but i cant boot windows! i know windows still here because i can see my win files in the HD.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install Fedora 12 using the installation DVD. When I boot the machine, I get an error message "No boot device available". I get the same error when attempting to boot from CDs and DVDs for various versions of linux, but I can boot Windows XP using a windows install disk in the same DVD drive.
The machine is a Dell 670 workstation, containing one SATA hard disk. I have tried enabling and disabling the SCSI controller, but that has no effect. The machine previously had Windows XP installed, which I deleted using "killdisk". I only want to install Fedora: I am not trying to set this up as a dual boot machine.
I have installed Fedora and Windows XP. I want to remove automatic boot on Fedora because it's very annoying. remove that automatic boot or auto boot on Windows XP?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had installed Fedora 13 on an unused partition of my ATA hard-drive yesterday. The primary OS here was Windows Vista.
Anyway, everything was working fne for coupla hours after which I had to restart F13 for some reason. This is when all the trouble began ..
Fedora wouldn't boot cause of some "power issues" - there were none. Windows Vista wouldn't boot because "BootMGR was missing"
I figured if I removed Fedora using the live CD - format the partition, it would help. It didn't. Well, atleast the partition got formatted. I tried re-installing F13 from the live CD but it doesn't finish the process - saying a command, something to do with 'shutdown' is not valid.
I tried repairing Vista from the Installation DVD but it is unable to do so.
Right now, on rebooting the computing, I enter the 'grub' console. I tried using grub commands to boot "Windows" from the (hd0,0) partition like thus,
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grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
grub> makeactive
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot
But it still maintains that "BootMGR is missing" .
So I want to install the original version of Fedora 15 and make it dual boot with my Windows 7. Problem here is that I don't have a cd/rom. and the iso file didn't have a .exe thingy.....
so now what? Also this is my partitions> http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9853/unledtlh.jpg
Originally I had Ubuntu running on my machine. I installed windows beta 7 with a working dual boot. Get everything working in grub again. I decided to give Fedora a try and wiped my Ubuntu partition and installed Fedora. Everythings all good...except the reconfiguration of grub has left out my Windows 7 partition (nothing out of the norm) I tried manually adding windows 7 to /boot/grub/menu.lst but it's not working, when I try to boot into Windows 7 i get a little flashing "_" for a really long time and nothing happens.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows7 installed on my computer. I thought of trying fedora 15 and installed it on a different partition. Now only fedora and Windows boot up. Can I triple boot my system and how? If not, how to get back Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7 as before.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI know how to do a dual boot. I have done it many many times. But 1 I always installed Windows first so I would not have any problems with Fedora grub, and 2 the computers I did dual boots on were ones that I didn't really care if something went wrong on. But I want to do a dual boot on my laptop which I do care if something goes wrong on. I have all my stuff backed up so its ok if I something goes wrong and I have to reinstall. But I would rather not have to set everything up on my laptop again. So my question is what is the best way to do a dual boot with Windows Vista (the one that came with my laptop) and Fedora 12. I already have Fedora 12 on my laptop. I need to do these things:
1. Make my Fedora 12 partition smaller to make room for Windows Vista.
2. Install Windows Vista without Windows Vista Grub messing up my Fedora 12 grub.
I understand that I am doing this at my own risk so please dont not respond. Like I said I have all my data backed up so I can reinstall if I need to. I would rather not but its doable.
I have a PC with two seperate hard drives. One has WinXP running on it, and on the other drive I've installed Fedora 13 from a live CD downloaded from the fedora website. How do I get the system to allow me a choice of which OS I want to start on boot-up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI looked for threads about this but didn't find them. If they are out the and I could be pointed to them it would much appreciated. I'm in the midst of building a new system and it will be a dual boot system with Windows 7 and Fedora. There will be two separate hard drives for each OS.
Currently I have a dual boot Win XP and Fedora system with a hard drive dedicated to each OS. The nice thing with this is that I found here on these forums a change to one of the Windows files that allows Windows to recognize that there are two different operating systems without having to spend the money for something like partitioning software. It was a simple one line change to an ini file, I think. Can this be done with Windows 7? If I'm not clear on what I'm asking let me know. It's been a while since I last did this so I'm a little fuzzy on it all.
I've recently changed from Ubuntu to Fedora and upgraded my system, but I'm experiencing a problem with GRUB. I' ve got a dual-boot system, Win XP and Fedora 15, but I can't boot into Windows. (only if I change the boot device in my bios)fdisk -l gives me following:
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Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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I installed fedora on my hard drive and would like to add windows 7 to it as dual boot. do i put the windows cd and just boot and install ? is that it? by the way, im doing updates and what is this? [URL]
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo I had a disk with fedora 15 on it and a computer with windows 7 and 500gb harddrive. I partitioned the harddrive and went to install fedora. So everything was fine and it was installing perfectly. And then when i would boot, there would be a blue and black fedora screen and it would say, press any key to boot fedora and if i didn't do anything it would boot windows 7 and by pressing a button i would go to a screen that said Fedora and other os. But when i was using fedora, it froze for like 10 min. so i decided to power down manually and reboot. When i rebooted it did the same thing except it loaded fedora automatically and a weird black screen with error messages popped up. And if i press a key it says choose os:, and then it has two different fedora options. And both show black "command prompt" error screens. But my windows files are still there and intact, so i am confused. And now the only way i can boot fedora is with the install disk. But when i try to install it over, it always freezes.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Fedora on my system with Ubuntu and windows 7. The fedora bootlader overrode grub. Now I can only boot into Fedora or windows. Any way I can choose between all three?
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have windows 7 installed in one of my 1TB HDD1. i have a 260 GB HDD2 i deleted all the partition and tried to install fedora 13 x86_64 in it . installation went well . during installation it did not ask me for boot loader (grub) and when the pc restarted it ended in Grub rescue>what should i do or should i have to reinstall it or any other way to work
View 8 Replies View RelatedI downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 and I want to make a dual boot with Windows 7 Ultimate using Windows Boot Manager...
I deleted my last Ubuntu OS (9.10) just because of GRUB
I just installed Fedora. I decided to duel boot and made sure to have it not touch my windows partition and install the bootloader. Now I can only boot into fedora which is lovely, but my windows is gone. Now I successfully mounted the ntfs partition windows was in, and the windows partition's fine and even the windows folder's still there but when I boot I only get the option for Fedora. Anyone knows how to fix it?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'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)?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just installed Fedora and I love it but I can no longer boot Windows 7. I have two hard drives, sda and sdb.sda1 is my windows partition. sda2 is my /boot for Fedora. sdb1 is an ntfs partition for storage. sdb2 is swap. sdb3 is my 40 gig /root partition. Why can't I boot windows?
View 10 Replies View RelatedA while ago I used a friends computer with F11 installed on it. I definitely want to install F13 on my computer now. Please, can someone either tell me complete information from the beggining to the end, or simply direct me to a guide somewhere else on the internet. I have a F13 live cd and want Windows 7 to be in control of the boot (by I suppose LiveBCD).
View 14 Replies View RelatedI posted recently about some problems with grub2(http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=254100)
I ran grub-install, it installed fine and when I rebooted it worked, only I was presented with a command line with the message that "Minimal command-line editing is still supported etc". I'm dual-booting with Windows and F13 and I couldn't boot into either of them so I had to reinstall F13 and replace grub. How do I install grub2 while still being able to boot into Windows or F13?
I'm not able to boot into windows XP after having upgraded to Fedora 15 (from a linux magazine DVD). I just get a perennial flashing cursor with black screen. I have tried leaving it like this for a few minutes to see if anything is happening in the background, but to no avail.There were no issues at all with Fedora 14.The grub.conf file appears to have been modified only to pre-pend the fedora 15 boot option. I have changed nothing else in grub.conf or (windows for that matter).All the Fedora boot options work correctly.I have update everything using yum update.Having read a few posts I am still none the wiser. I append the grub.conf and the output of "fdisk -l". What is Fedora 15 version of grub doing differently, and what has it modified that disables the windows part of the bootloader?
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
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# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
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In fact, I put it on my PC of RedHat when it was free, and it didn't work.Are there any such tutorials to dual boot Windows 7 with Fedora 15 (latest version), or would someone be kind enough to walk me through the process? I have tons of music on Windows that I don't want to get lost.What are the chances that my Windows hardware will recognize in Fedora? I was bypassing to get to this forum, and I saw Nvidia drivers are difficult to get configured. Those are the drivers my PC runs on. I'm not sure of my hardware. How difficult would it to setup, and configure hardware?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have two hard drives, one (hard drive C) is 250GB and is the first hard disk. The second (hard drive Z) is 1000 GB and is the second hard disk in order. There used to be windows XP on C and Windows 7 on Z.
Because I installed 7 to Z from XP which is on C, it put the Windows Boot Loader on hard disk C. I didn't know this until now.
When I installed Fedora, I gave it all of C to install on. That messed up something because the Windows Boot Loader was on that drive, so grub didn't list it in the OS's to load. I had to add it manually, and got it working correctly so it had an entry for the partition that Windows 7 was on. This didn't work however, because Windows 7 on drive Z didn't have it's NTLDR on that drive, so now I have a 7 installation without an NTLDR on Z and a Fedora install on C. I am sure grub is working properly because when I change the load order of the hard drives to load Z first, it gives the same error:
NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart
or something along those lines.
Is there a way to get Z to have an NTLDR again and be able too boot Windows 7? I really hope I didn't mess up my entire 7 installation because of this.
My current task is to add windows 7 to fc12. From other postings it seems the next step is to use the fc12 install disk to create a windows partition from the unused space. Could someone inform me about whether this will delete my current installation of fc12 and my home directory.
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