Re: Dual boot on Win7

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On Wednesday 10 November 2010 08:05:34 Joachim Backes wrote:

> On 11/10/2010 07:58 AM, Paul F. Johnson wrote:

> > Hi,

> >

> > My laptop already has Win7 on. Is there any way for me to dual boot to

> > F14 without removing Win7 first?

> >

> > If there is, anyone know of a good "how to"?

> >

> > TTFN

> >

> > Paul

>

> Hi Paul,

>

> You can install F14, if there is enough disk place available for F14

> (possibly after reducing the Win partition(s) size(s)). The F14

> installer will install F14 in a new or free partition. Then the dual

> boot will be possible by correspondent grub entries in

> /boot/grub/grub.conf you likely must make after the first F14 boot (if

> that has not been done by anaconda, the Fedora installer).

>

> As example my /boot/grub/grub.conf:

>

> title Fedora (2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE)

> root (hd2,6)

> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE ro

> root=LABEL=/F14 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8

> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rhgb quiet

> initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE.img

>

> title Windows 7

> rootnoverify (hd0,0)

> chainloader +1

>

> Don't forget to run grub-install for writing the grub loader on your

> boot disk (if not already done by anaconda).

>

> Kind regards

No need the Fedora installer, anaconda will recognise the Windows 7 partition and set up the dual boot for you.

You may have to edit /etc/grub.conf after the install and comment out the hiddenmenu line. This will give you the dual boot menu at boot time.

Tony

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