[Solved] Virtual Box & Windows -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sat Mar 26 20:22:18 UTC 2011
On 25/03/11 17:37, Claude Jones wrote:
> On 3/25/2011 11:55 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>> That's still not what I wanted, I would prefer to use the
>>>>> Windows already on one of my hard drives and dual boot
>>>>> via grub. I will try the procedure you describe, if I can't
>>>>> manage that then the problem will be resolved with an
>>>>> eventual new install of F-15.
>>>>> My problem is
>>>>> that the only way I can get Windows to run is to plug it into
>>>>> the first slot, then Windows boots but I never see grub.
> Bob: Somehow, I missed this part. You have a very simple problem. What
> you need to do is set up the Windows drive as you describe above (you
> can also usually go into BIOS and tell the computer which drive to boot
> off of regardless of which slot a hard drive is in). You then want to
> boot from your Fedora CD and go into "rescue mode"; there, you'll be
> able to use a simple command to rewrite your grub.conf file to the MBR
> on the Windows drive, which will then give you your desired dual-boot
> option...
>
> There are lots of sites out there that discuss how to do the above;
> here's one:
> http://danleff.net/myarticles/fedorainstall/linuxinstallharddrives5.html
>
> when I made that first suggestion, I misunderstood your desired result
> and thought you wanted to run your Old Windows XP as a virtualized
> machine inside Virtual Box - maybe because of the title of this thread ;-)
Claude & Compdoc:
I finally have this working and dual booting from the original
Windows drive.
The original drive is in the first position and as I mentioned
earlier I installed F14 on it from DVD, that created a grub that
booted either WindowsXP or the new F14 which was not updated and
configured to suit me.
With a text editor I copied a kernel line from grub.conf in the
updated F14 install into the new grub on the Windows drive which
is the drive the system boots from now. It works as I want I to.
A major accomplishment for me. Someone more skilled might have
done it differently and faster.
It took some messing with the grub "hdx" designations to get
things working. Curiously I could not make changes using the
grub editor permanent? I finally had to do that from my text
editor "e3em." I hope my changes will survive the next kernel
yum update.
As a byproduct of this effort I also have a working "virtualbox"
which also runs windows but is not as convenient to use although
v'box has other potential uses. I never did get it to use the
Windows already on the hard drive, it ran with one I installed
from an OEM CD and updated with SP3.
A lot of effort to get Windows running for just one application
but I learned a few things that I will use.
Thanks to all.
Bob
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