On 02/21/2013 05:40 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 02/20/2013 11:12 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
On 20 February 2013 17:28, Bill Davidsen davidsen@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.
No. As I already wrote elsewhere in this thread, I am trying to keep all OSes as separate as possible.
To achive this, I am using as a manually administrated common "/boot" partition,
grub chainloader-cascades and separate "boot" partitions for each Linux-installation, which chain-loads other OS other partitions.
Furthermore, in each Linux installations' /etc/default/grub, I have set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true to prevent these Linux installations' grubs to add entries for "foreign OSes".
Ralf