Dual booting Fedora and Win7

[Bill Davidsen]

Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 18:41 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> I'm putting Win7 on a machine for testing on a project, on bare iron instead of 
>> a VM. Since I hate to waste a machine for 60-90 minutes a week of test, I want 
>> to mix with Fedora. I asked a month or so ago, and got some thoughts about 
>> adding Win7 to an existing Fedora machine, from people who hadn't done it (Win7 
>> wasn't out yet).
>>
>> After a slew of install issues, a clean install was done and the Win7 worked. 
>> Now to boot Fedora using the "Windows boot manager." No, that doesn't work, 
>> checked that the grub-install had been in the OS partition rather than the MBR, 
>> still no boot.
>>
>> Reinstall Fedora, still doesn't boot from WBM.
>>
>> Run grub-install into MBR, boot into Fedora, add chain load to grub.conf, 
>> reboot. Win7 is in the boot menu, but say "unknown executable" instead of 
>> booting. Reinstall Win7 again, run project required tests.
>>
>> Hopefully at some time will be able to put Win7 in grub menu.
> 
> I had no trouble getting Win7 booted with grub, it worked as with every
> other Windows I have dealt with.
> 
> Note, however, that at least in my case fdisk reports 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda2              13       10449    83824640    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3   *       10449       10475      204800   83  Linux
> (+ an extended partition which contains /, /home and swap)
> 
> 
> These were created by the Windows install upon partitioning. I only gave
> some 80GB of disk for Windows and it created two partitions: /dev/sda1
> (the Windows boot partition) and /dev/sda2 (the Windows system
> partition). My grub.conf states
> 
> title Windows 7
> 	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> 	chainloader +1
> 
> so you need to use the Windows boot partition, not the Windows system
> partition for the chailoader to work. My grub is (naturally) in the MBR.

Not what I saw, see attached fdisk output, I only got one partition. However, 
that gives me something to consider, at least. Thanks.


-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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