Testing needed for dual boot systems

[Christopher Beland]

Doing a bit of grub triage, I found several people not seeing non-Fedora
operating systems in their boot menus.  Some of these bugs were filed
against grub, but should these really be considered anaconda bugs?  Or
is it reasonable to request as a future feature that grub detect other
operating systems itself?

If you have another operating system installed (or are willing to do
so), the anaconda maintainer has requested more testing to see if these
bugs are fixed.  It would be useful to see if you can reproduce any of
these bugs in the version reported and in Fedora 11 beta or later. 

Thanks!

Beland


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464214
[anaconda] After installation, grub will only boot to Fedora, and has no
entry for Windows Vista.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334701
[grub] GRUB does not include other OSes in boot loader menu

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452545
[grub] GRUB intolerant of pre-existing Ubuntu and Debian installations.
[closed as dup of 334701, but has replication instructions]

[Mike Chambers]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 04:32 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
>  Doing a bit of grub triage, I found several people not seeing
> non-Fedora
>  operating systems in their boot menus.  Some of these bugs were filed
>  against grub, but should these really be considered anaconda bugs?  Or
>  is it reasonable to request as a future feature that grub detect other
>  operating systems itself?
>  
>  If you have another operating system installed (or are willing to do
>  so), the anaconda maintainer has requested more testing to see if these
>  bugs are fixed.  It would be useful to see if you can reproduce any of
>  these bugs in the version reported and in Fedora 11 beta or later.  
I dual boot vista and Fedora (currently rawhide) and grub detects both
OS's just fine for the most part.

Maybe it depends on how they have them arranged on their disk(s) and/or
how they are formatted?  Maybe those are unusual cases?

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

Fedora Project - Bugzapper, Tester, User, etc..
miketc302(a)fedoraproject.org

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 04:32 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
>  Doing a bit of grub triage, I found several people not seeing
> non-Fedora
>  operating systems in their boot menus.  Some of these bugs were filed
>  against grub, but should these really be considered anaconda bugs?  Or
>  is it reasonable to request as a future feature that grub detect other
>  operating systems itself? 
Definitely Anaconda, IMHO. grub's never done any kind of
self-configuration nor should it be expected to.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 04/23/2009 04:32 AM, Christopher Beland wrote:
>  If you have another operating system installed (or are willing to do
>  so), the anaconda maintainer has requested more testing to see if these
>  bugs are fixed.  It would be useful to see if you can reproduce any of
>  these bugs in the version reported and in Fedora 11 beta or later. 
>  
I have a dual boot test system with Vista and many other distros and 
flavors of Fedora.  Vista has been seen every time.  Vista was installed 
first before any linux variants, if that makes a difference.

[Felix Miata]

On 2009/04/23 16:51 (GMT-0400) Clyde E. Kunkel composed:

>  I have a dual boot test system with Vista and many other distros
Those with more than two operating systems installed on a single system do
not have dual boot. Dual means exactly two. Multi-boot means more than one,
which is what you have.
-- 
"He who works his land will have abundant food, but the
one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty."
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[Clyde E. Kunkel]

On 04/23/2009 05:36 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>  On 2009/04/23 16:51 (GMT-0400) Clyde E. Kunkel composed:
>
> > I have a dual boot test system with Vista and many other distros
>
>  Those with more than two operating systems installed on a single system do
>  not have dual boot. Dual means exactly two. Multi-boot means more than one,
>  which is what you have. 

so what.  Do you not understand loosely defining dual boot?  Do you not 
understand that the same principles can apply?  Why don't you go play 
with the kids and leave the serious stuff to us adults.

[Robert L Cochran]

I like to swap hard drives in and out of my laptop and currently, my 
Fedora 10 installation dual boots with Windows XP Professional without 
any problems on one of the drives. A second hard drive has Fedora 11 on 
it, but no dual booting. If at some point I elect to replace the Fedora 
10 on the other drive with Fedora 11, I don't expect any problems so as 
long as Anaconda doesn't merrily format my NTFS partition.

I'm actually more interested in running Windows XP as a virtual machine 
in Fedora 11.

Bob


On 04/23/2009 04:32 AM, Christopher Beland wrote:
>  Doing a bit of grub triage, I found several people not seeing
> non-Fedora
>  operating systems in their boot menus.  Some of these bugs were filed
>  against grub, but should these really be considered anaconda bugs?  Or
>  is it reasonable to request as a future feature that grub detect other
>  operating systems itself?
>
>  If you have another operating system installed (or are willing to do
>  so), the anaconda maintainer has requested more testing to see if these
>  bugs are fixed.  It would be useful to see if you can reproduce any of
>  these bugs in the version reported and in Fedora 11 beta or later.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  Beland
>
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464214
>  [anaconda] After installation, grub will only boot to Fedora, and has no
>  entry for Windows Vista.
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334701
>  [grub] GRUB does not include other OSes in boot loader menu
>
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452545
>  [grub] GRUB intolerant of pre-existing Ubuntu and Debian installations.
>  [closed as dup of 334701, but has replication instructions]
>
>
>
>