Fedora 17 install dualboot with Windows 7 Home Premium goes nowhere

Daniel Landau daniel.landau at iki.fi
Thu Oct 11 13:55:57 UTC 2012


On 11 Oct 2012 16:01, "Ranjan Maitra" <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> > 4. mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/fedora
>
> I guess the X is for wherever the / partition is?
>
> > (4.b mount /dev/sdaY /mnt/fedora/boot)
>
> This Y is for the /boot partition?
>

Exactly so.

> > 9. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (check here to find out where
> > you should put 2's)
>
> I do not understand this point. Where should I put the 2's?
>

I think on my Fedora 18 install the command to run was:

$ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

While on Ubuntu the corresponding command is:

$ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Grub is such an important part of a system, that you don't simply go and
update it for no reason. Grub version 2 is a somewhat complete rewrite and
redesign (disclaimer: I'm not an expert on Grub), so the update has led to
different names in different distros that have either allowed or not for
both to be installed at the same time (user binaries, that is, only one
actual bootloader at a time).

> Will this fix the Windoze side also?

If, and that's a big if, the only thing wrong is the boot loader then it
will. If there's something wrong with the actual files for the installation
or the partitions, then they won't get fixed.

> I tried this yesterday, but got an error message saying no device
> drives/drivers found. I looked around the HP website but no help.
>
> I used a DVD. I also tried using Unetbootin on a USB stick, but all I
> got on the USB stick was "Default" when I booted into it.

I think this starts to delve too far into windows support for this list. I
don't know about the drivers thing, but you can't use unetbootin to make a
Windows usb stick, there is a Microsoft made Windows only software for that.

Daniel
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