Dual boot on Win7

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Wed Nov 10 11:56:20 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 10 November 2010 08:05:34 Joachim Backes wrote:
> 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

No need the Fedora installer, anaconda will recognise the Windows 7 partition 
and set up the dual boot for you.

You may have to edit /etc/grub.conf after the install and comment out the 
hiddenmenu line. This will give you the dual boot menu at boot time.

Tony
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