FC18 Installer is Garbage

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/20/2013 11:12 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 20 February 2013 17:28, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> 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.
>>
>> Very sorry to see this.
>>
>
> For what it's worth I have F18 dual booting with Windows okay. I
> hadn't replied to your emails because it looks like you're trying to
> install alongside another linux (F17) and I'm not sure how to do that,
> particularly as the solution I did know (the one I think you were
> using, with separate boot partitions and the disc grub chainloading to
> each one) doesn't work anymore.

It still does work for me - It is exactly what I have.

Ralf