Gustavo Seabra wrote:
Scott wrote:
Gustavo Seabra wrote:
PM is still good if you want more than two OS' (say Win XP, Win2k, FC3 or WinXP FC3, SuSE 9.2). Also you can use it's Boot Manager (Boot Magic) vs using GRUB.Gerhard Magnus wrote:
Why do you need Partition Magic? Fedora can do all the partitions during the installation process. I actually suggests a scheme that, as I learned too late, is pretty good. What we did and worked fine was:I'm trying to set up a dual booting system with Windows XP and Fedora 3 using Partition/Boot Magic 8. My system has two hard drives with Windows XP installed on drive 1. Following the Partion Magic instructions, I created a small FAT partition on drive 1 for the Boot Magic files (which can't be installed on a NTFS partition). I used Partition Magic to create Linux ext3 and swap partitions on drive 2. I then installed Fedora 3 on drive 2, apparently successfully since I got to the splash screen that said so and told me to reboot.
When I installed Fedora 3 without GRUB, the reboot hung on the message that the system was preparing to boot Fedora 3.
When I installed Fedora 3 with GRUB (and including Windows XP as an option on the GRUB menu) I was able to reboot into Fedora successfully and complete the installation process. But then the Windows XP boot hung.
I used the Boot Magic rescue disc to boot back to Windows XP where I reactivated Boot Magic and added Fedora as an OS to the Boot Magic menu. Now I can boot into Windows XP but the Fedora boot fails.
Any hints as to how to hack through this? Are there special problems with having the bootable Fedora partition on the second drive? I'm not committed to using Boot Magic but it's worked fine for me in the past.
Thanks for the help! Jerry
First partition: WinXP
All the rest: done with the partition utility during the Fedora installation, and all worked fine.
But in response to how you did it on yours, do you have Fedora partitions on a separate drive or on the same drive (as windows)?
Scott
Same drive. It was olnly one HD.
Boot magic can't load Linux directly: you need to "chain load" a Linux loader like Grub or Lilo. With that setup, the Linux loader goes on the first sector of the boot partition (either /boot if you have one, or / otherwise).
I use System Commander 2000, which has the ability to load Windows 98 to a Dos prompt, or the same Windows partitions with different configuration files. I have PM8, but I haven't tried Boot Magic recently. From my recollection, I would just as soon stick with Grub as Boot Magic, which doesn't have any special capabilities in dealing with either Windows or Linux afaik.
David Liguori
