On 02/20/2013 06:28 PM, Bill Davidsen 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.
Well, may-be you're asking the wrong questions?
At least I don't understand what you are asking.
All I can say, I have several multi-boot installations working, comprising Fedora (17, 18), openSUSE, Ubuntu and Win8.
What I did not do, was to install F18 from scratch - I upgraded a preexisting F17 installation to F18.
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.
Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say.
Are you trying to utilize one single /boot partition with one single grub for a multiboot setup? From my experience, this has never actually worked. My trick to circumvent this is to use cascaded grubs (chain-loading OSes).
Ralf