On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM, vcamatya <no-reply-gw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi David, > > I'm trying to triple boot Fedora 10, XP-64 bit, and xp-32 bit. > I was hoping if you could provide me some pointers, if it is useful at all for me: Hi Vinay > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines We must keep in mind that this list is for discussion of *Fedora* issues (and you do not mention any problem inside Fedora itself) so shifting focus to other operating systems (OS) could become inappropriate in this forum. My previous post was to make a specific point that counter to common advice I'd found it unnecessary to install multiple OS in a specific physical order on disk as often stated, if one is prepared to rearrange the partition table (and repair the mbr) afterward. I felt this might be useful to primarily linux users who might want to try install another OS after. But this is not your situation here, you have installed your XP's first. So I think my previous post is not relevant to you at all. I have zero experience with or interest in XP and its installation scripts. Also, I do not use lvm, I have not seen a grub.conf for an lvm system. So your situation is beyond me in several aspects and I expect there will be other readers here who can assist you better than I. Having said that, here's my suggestions. Your situation is different to the original poster, so it is a good idea to begin a new thread rather than hijacking this one onto your issue. I think parted is not the solution you need; I suggest you focus on grub. It is powerful and if configured correctly should be able to boot your other OS. However some of these other OS seem to be written assuming they are the only OS on the box. A quick google/linux search "boot logical partition" for similar situation to yours, first result thread [1] included: ----- If you _must_ get this grub setup to work, I suspect you'll have to find some way to overcome XP's "code tracking" features that maintains guids and timestamps (and who knows what else) about the boot loader code/files in the registry. The code you copied no longer matches up with what XP's registry values say it should be. ----- So there might be other (non-Fedora) issues for you to research elsewhere, even if you do get those OS to boot. The reason I did that search is that it looked odd to me that you have only one primary partition after your two XP installs, and that your extended/logical partitions are physically first on the drive. Here I've always used a primary partition for each OS, but maybe thats not necessary. Other readers might confirm what is normal for multiple XP installs. > Editing Grub.conf (from many suggestions) didn't help. What forum was that discussion? Can you provide a link, to save us going over the same here? If you want to seek help here getting your Fedora install grub to boot those other OS, it will help to know: 1) In parted output, which partition is XP32 ? 2) In parted output, which partition is XP64 ? 3) Your entire grub.conf 4) (Your parted info again if you start a new thread). 5) The *exact* error message you see in each failed boot situation. Good luck with it. At least you have the best of the 3 OS running ok ;) David [1] http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux/2004-03/0318.html -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
