Dual boot on Win7

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Wed Nov 10 08:05:34 UTC 2010


On 11/10/2010 07:58 AM, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My laptop already has Win7 on. Is there any way for me to dual boot to
> F14 without removing Win7 first?
> 
> If there is, anyone know of a good "how to"?
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul

Hi Paul,

You can install F14, if there is enough disk place available for F14
(possibly after reducing the Win partition(s) size(s)). The F14
installer will install F14 in a new or free partition. Then the dual
boot will be possible by correspondent grub entries in
/boot/grub/grub.conf you likely must make after the first F14 boot (if
that has not been done by anaconda, the Fedora installer).

As example my /boot/grub/grub.conf:

title Fedora (2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE)
        root (hd2,6)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE ro
root=LABEL=/F14 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE.img

title Windows 7
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1

Don't forget to run grub-install for writing the grub loader on your
boot disk (if not already done by anaconda).

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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