FC18 Installer is Garbage

Louis Lagendijk louis at fazant.net
Wed Feb 20 22:01:17 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 22:39 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:28:36 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> > After a month of asking how to get dual boot working, on this list, another 
> > support list, in chat rooms, I have not had ONE SINGLE PERSON tell me that they 
> > installed FC18 and it found their other OS installs on that system, much less 
> > offered a hint how to get the other OS booted. I sadly conclude that Fedora has 
> > followed the Windows route and doesn't recognize other OS.
> > 
> > Tried with XP, or Win7, or BSD, or FC17, all having their own partition(s). None 
> > worked, none were recognized, pasting grub2 stanzas from previous working OS 
> > failed to boot completely.
I recommend the OP to run 
grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg
When I installed F18 Anaconda did not install the other OS's for me
either. The command above did the trick for me




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