FC18 Installer is Garbage

[Bill Davidsen]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 02/20/2013 11:12 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
>> On 20 February 2013 17:28, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>>> After a month of asking how to get dual boot working, on this list, another
>>> support list, in chat rooms, I have not had ONE SINGLE PERSON tell me that
>>> they installed FC18 and it found their other OS installs on that system,
>>> much less offered a hint how to get the other OS booted. I sadly conclude
>>> that Fedora has followed the Windows route and doesn't recognize other OS.
>>>
>>> Tried with XP, or Win7, or BSD, or FC17, all having their own partition(s).
>>> None worked, none were recognized, pasting grub2 stanzas from previous
>>> working OS failed to boot completely.
>>>
>>> Very sorry to see this.
>>>
>>
>> For what it's worth I have F18 dual booting with Windows okay. I
>> hadn't replied to your emails because it looks like you're trying to
>> install alongside another linux (F17) and I'm not sure how to do that,
>> particularly as the solution I did know (the one I think you were
>> using, with separate boot partitions and the disc grub chainloading to
>> each one) doesn't work anymore.
>
> It still does work for me - It is exactly what I have.
>
So the installer worked for you and found your other OS versions and built 
entries for you? Never happened for me.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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