I did some googling earlier looking for info on triple booting Fedora, XP and Vista. I found some good info where everything is contained all on one drive, but I have 4 sata drives that I'll be using.
I have an 80G for XP, and 80G for Vista, a 160 for Fedora, and a 250 for data storage.
Has anyone else worked at triple booting in this way?
The one guide suggests using the windows bootloader to let you handle xp and vista and grub can get you into fedora. Ideally I'l like to use grub for all three.Should I make my fedora drive sda then in this case?
Anyone else done this and have ideas?
Thanks.
Thom Paine wrote:
I did some googling earlier looking for info on triple booting Fedora, XP and Vista. I found some good info where everything is contained all on one drive, but I have 4 sata drives that I'll be using.
I have an 80G for XP, and 80G for Vista, a 160 for Fedora, and a 250 for data storage.
Has anyone else worked at triple booting in this way?
The one guide suggests using the windows bootloader to let you handle xp and vista and grub can get you into fedora. Ideally I'l like to use grub for all three.Should I make my fedora drive sda then in this case?
Anyone else done this and have ideas?
Thanks.
Not sure about Vista, but in the past this was done by:
Install Windows A on primary disk Switch primary disk in BIOS Install Windows B to new primary disk Switch BIOS back and install Fedora -- it will find them all
On 28/10/06, Thom Paine painethom@gmail.com wrote:
I did some googling earlier looking for info on triple booting Fedora, XP and Vista. I found some good info where everything is contained all on one drive, but I have 4 sata drives that I'll be using.
I have an 80G for XP, and 80G for Vista, a 160 for Fedora, and a 250 for data storage.
Has anyone else worked at triple booting in this way?
The one guide suggests using the windows bootloader to let you handle xp and vista and grub can get you into fedora. Ideally I'l like to use grub for all three.Should I make my fedora drive sda then in this case?
Anyone else done this and have ideas?
Thanks.
You should install the MS operating systems first, as they do not provide provisions for booting non-MS operating systems (well, NT did). I wouldimagine (not sure) that Vista can be installed without wiping XP. If not, then complain to Microsoft.
After those two are installed, install Fedora. The installation should identify both MS operating systems and and them to grub. Even if this does not happen, it is an easy fix to add them later.
Dotan Cohen
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Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 28/10/06, Thom Paine painethom@gmail.com wrote:
I did some googling earlier looking for info on triple booting Fedora, XP and Vista. I found some good info where everything is contained all on one drive, but I have 4 sata drives that I'll be using.
I have an 80G for XP, and 80G for Vista, a 160 for Fedora, and a 250 for data storage.
Has anyone else worked at triple booting in this way?
The one guide suggests using the windows bootloader to let you handle xp and vista and grub can get you into fedora. Ideally I'l like to use grub for all three.Should I make my fedora drive sda then in this case?
Anyone else done this and have ideas?
Thanks.
You should install the MS operating systems first, as they do not provide provisions for booting non-MS operating systems (well, NT did). I wouldimagine (not sure) that Vista can be installed without wiping XP. If not, then complain to Microsoft.
After those two are installed, install Fedora. The installation should identify both MS operating systems and and them to grub. Even if this does not happen, it is an easy fix to add them later.
Dotan Cohen
I've got this working, but only as a two-stage boot process. The Vista bootloader is new, and grub doesn't play well with it. I have a grub entry that boots the Vista boot loader. That has entries for XP and Vista. A bit clunky, but it works.
Every time I install a new version of Vista I have to use the Fedora rescue CD to reinstall grub.
Regards, Eric
On 31/10/06, Eric Mader emader@icu-project.org wrote:
Every time I install a new version of Vista I have to use the Fedora rescue CD to reinstall grub.
Have you complained to Microsoft about this? I'm not kidding. You should.
Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/love.html http://essentialinux.com/
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 31/10/06, Eric Mader emader@icu-project.org wrote:
Every time I install a new version of Vista I have to use the Fedora rescue CD to reinstall grub.
Have you complained to Microsoft about this? I'm not kidding. You should.
Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/love.html http://essentialinux.com/
They know about this, but for some reason they don't seem too concerned about it ;-)
Regards, Eric
I've been experimenting with this yesterday and today.
I have 4 hard drives in my system.
sda is a 160G I planned to put FEdora on. sdb is an 80G I planned to use for XP. sdc is an 80G I planned to use Vista on. sdd is a 250G I planned to use for storage.
I tried only hooking up sdb with which to install XP. It installed fine. I then unhooked sdb and hooked up sdc and installed Vista. It went without a hitch as well.
I then unhooked sdc and hooked up sda and installed Fedora. Fedora looks awesome and installed without problems as well.
I then hooked up sdb and sdc and made sure fedora was still booting. It was.
I tried modifying my grub lines to include the other two OS's I wanted to boot.
This failed. I found a post on fedoraforum.org dealing with hiding and unhiding partitions. I tried with with my hard drives to no avail.
So I wiped all three drives again, and tried installing XP first on sdb. This installed but wanted me to have sda hooked up to dump some boot files to. I then tried installing Vista to sdc but it wouldn't install there with the three drives hooked up.
I wound up installing Vista to sda and I have yet to install Fedora to sdc.
I'd rather not install all three OS's to one hard drive, but I guess I could do that to the 250G and then use the other drives as data storage.
Anyone else have suggestions?
Thanks.
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Thom Paine wrote: [...]
I'd rather not install all three OS's to one hard drive, but I guess I could do that to the 250G and then use the other drives as data storage.
Anyone else have suggestions?
Remove all but one drive and install it as sda. Install XP.
Remove the first drive and install the second drive as sda. Install Vista.
Remove the second drive and install the third drive as sda. Reinstall the first and second drives as sdb and sdc and your data drive as sdd. Install linux adding the extra bootable partitions to the grub configuration during install. Boot linux and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. You will need to remap sdb and sdc in the sections for XP and Vista so they believe they are the first drive when they boot. It will be something similar to this:
title Windows XP root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1
(the 'hd1' 'hd0' stuff will depend on your actual configuration. Just use whatever drives grub.conf says they are on).
If you have a 'hidden' line in your grub.conf, comment it out.
You should now be able to use grub to boot to all three OS's.
Remove all but one drive and install it as sda. Install XP.
Remove the first drive and install the second drive as sda. Install Vista.
Remove the second drive and install the third drive as sda. Reinstall the first and second drives as sdb and sdc and your data drive as sdd. Install linux adding the extra bootable partitions to the grub configuration during install. Boot linux and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf. You will need to remap sdb and sdc in the sections for XP and Vista so they believe they are the first drive when they boot. It will be something similar to this:
title Windows XP root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1
(the 'hd1' 'hd0' stuff will depend on your actual configuration. Just use whatever drives grub.conf says they are on).
If you have a 'hidden' line in your grub.conf, comment it out.
You should now be able to use grub to boot to all three OS's.
Trying this now. During installation I had problems installing FC6 with my Vista drive hooked up. The computer seemed to hang at the probing for video card part. I let it sit for a good 30 minutes and it didn't seem to time out.
I unplugged both my Vista and my XP drives and am installing FC6 as sda. I'll hook up the other two drives after installation completes and make the necessary entries in grub.conf.
Thanks.
title Windows XP root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1
Tried this. It won't boot vista or xp.
My setup is sda fedora. sdb is xp. sdc is vista.
So I set my grub.conf to contain:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz # hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img title Windows XP root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1
title Windows Vista root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd2) map (hd2) (hd0) chainloader +1
Trying to boot either os results in a reboot of the computer.
Fedora works good tho. I wish I could play WoW natively with it.
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Thom Paine wrote:
title Windows XP root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1
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title Windows XP root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) chainloader +1
title Windows Vista root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive map (hd0) (hd2) map (hd2) (hd0) chainloader +1
Trying to boot either os results in a reboot of the computer.
Fedora works good tho. I wish I could play WoW natively with it.
I realize it has been a while since you posted this (I didn't see it when you originally posted). It looks to me like you incorrectly used 'root (hd0,0)' instead of 'root (hd1,0)' for your WinXP config and 'root (hd0,0)' instead of 'root (hd2,0)' for your Vista config.
I have this working with XP and Fedora. My system will not boot at all when I have the Vista drive plugged in. It won't get past the post.
I've left it and not bothered. If vista is going to be so ignorant, I can't be bothered.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Thom Paine wrote:
I have this working with XP and Fedora. My system will not boot at all when I have the Vista drive plugged in. It won't get past the post.
I've left it and not bothered. If vista is going to be so ignorant, I can't be bothered.
Post happens _way_ before the OS is involved. I would guess you have a bad cable, a bad port on your controller (M/B?), or a bad drive. In any case, it isn't the OS. You have some type of hardware issue.
Sorry, I meant it will post, but then it reboots right after that. I don't get the grub screen.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Thom Paine wrote:
Sorry, I meant it will post, but then it reboots right after that. I don't get the grub screen.
Still probably not the OS. Grub should come up so long as the boot drive is connected correctly - regardless of what is on other drives. I would check your BIOS boot settings to find out what its 'preferred' boot order is. I suspect it is trying to boot from the Vista drive directly (and failing because the Vista drive isn't where Vista expects it to be) rather than booting the drive with grub installed first.
HI, In MS windows OS, I used VIM command (:! find "STATUS" *.h), and got the results on CMD window. So I could not jump to one file directly using the command "Ctrl+]". Can anybody tell me how i can get the results in vim ? Thanks in advance.
Cmj
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 17:20 +0800, chengmj@gionee.com wrote:
HI, In MS windows OS, I used VIM command (:! find "STATUS" *.h), and got the results on CMD window. So I could not jump to one file directly using the command "Ctrl+]". Can anybody tell me how i can get the results in vim ? Thanks in advance.
Cmj
Maybe I am confused but your question is too concise. I can't understand what you are asking. Could you clarify?
On FRI, 8 DEC 2006, chengmj wrote:
HI, In MS windows OS, I used VIM command (:! find "STATUS" *.h), and got the results on CMD window. So I could not jump to one file directly using the command "Ctrl+]". Can anybody tell me how i can get the results in vim ? Thanks in advance.
Cmj
As Aaron pointed out, your question i too concise. I am guessing:
r:! find "STATUS" *.h
My meaning is how I make the results of searching to display in VIM automatically, so I can using some commands of VIM (such as "gf") to open the accordingly file with vim .
发件人： Leo 发送时间： 2006-12-09 08:05:02 收件人： fedora-list@redhat.com 抄送： 主题： Re: A question about VIM
On FRI, 8 DEC 2006, chengmj wrote:
HI, In MS windows OS, I used VIM command (:! find "STATUS" *.h), and got the results on CMD window. So I could not jump to one file directly using the command "Ctrl+]". Can anybody tell me how i can get the results in vim ? Thanks in advance.
Cmj
As Aaron pointed out, your question i too concise. I am guessing:
r:! find "STATUS" *.h
Around 12:53am on Saturday, December 09, 2006 (UK time), chengmj@gionee.com scrawled:
My meaning is how I make the results of searching to display in VIM automatically, so I can using some commands of VIM (such as "gf") to open the accordingly file with vim .
Is this in MS Windows?
yes. how can I display the searching results in vim instead of the console window?
发件人： Steve Searle 发送时间： 2006-12-09 09:04:10 收件人： chengmj@gionee.com; For users of Fedora 抄送： 主题： Re: Re: A question about VIM
Around 12:53am on Saturday, December 09, 2006 (UK time), chengmj@gionee.com scrawled:
My meaning is how I make the results of searching to display in VIM automatically, so I can using some commands of VIM (such as "gf") to open the accordingly file with vim .
Is this in MS Windows?
Steve Searle: In Linux, the condition is similar. The difference is that I use vim command ":! grep "STATUS" *.h" and the searching results are displayed in shell. how can I display the searching results automatically in vim instead of the shell?
cmj
发件人： Steve Searle 发送时间： 2006-12-09 09:23:33 收件人： chengmj@gionee.com 抄送： 主题： Re: Re: Re: A question about VIM
Around 01:00am on Saturday, December 09, 2006 (UK time), chengmj@gionee.com scrawled:
yes. how can I display the searching results in vim instead of the console window?
No idea - this is a Fedora list - a GNU/Linux OS.
Steve
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 19:34, chengmj@gionee.com wrote:
In Linux, the condition is similar. The difference is that I use vim command ":! grep "STATUS" *.h" and the searching results are displayed in shell. how can I display the searching results automatically in vim instead of the shell?
If you want to read the output of a shell command into the edit buffer it would be :r !command after starting vim. If you want to iterate through the files, you need to expand the list on the command line as you start vim - perhaps like vim `grep -l STATUS *.h` Then you can cycle through the files with :n
HI, In MS windows OS, I used VIM command (:! find "STATUS" *.h), and got the results on CMD window. So I could not jump to one file directly using the command "gf". Can anybody tell me how i can get the results in vim ? Thanks in advance.
Cmj
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:15 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
I have 4 hard drives in my system.
sda is a 160G I planned to put FEdora on. sdb is an 80G I planned to use for XP. sdc is an 80G I planned to use Vista on. sdd is a 250G I planned to use for storage.
I tried only hooking up sdb with which to install XP. It installed fine. I then unhooked sdb and hooked up sdc and installed Vista. It went without a hitch as well.
I then unhooked sdc and hooked up sda and installed Fedora. Fedora looks awesome and installed without problems as well.
I then hooked up sdb and sdc and made sure fedora was still booting. It was.
I tried modifying my grub lines to include the other two OS's I wanted to boot.
This failed. I found a post on fedoraforum.org dealing with hiding and unhiding partitions. I tried with with my hard drives to no avail.
In what way did it "fail"? Nothing booted? Some things couldn't be done?
One problem with unplugging drives for an installation is that when they're reconnected, they're at different locations (e.g. what was initially /dev/hda becomes /dev/hdb, and so on). This can confuse all manner of things (bootloaders, fstab mount points, etc.), which expect things to be the same as when the installation was performed.
You might want to say whether sda refers to SCSI or SATA. That might have a bearing on things.
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