FC18 Installer is Garbage

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/21/2013 05:40 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> So the installer worked for you and found your other OS versions and
> built entries for you? Never happened for me.

No. As I already wrote elsewhere in this thread, I am trying to keep all 
OSes as separate as possible.

To achive this, I am using as a manually administrated common "/boot" 
partition,

grub chainloader-cascades and separate "boot" partitions for each 
Linux-installation, which chain-loads other OS other partitions.

Furthermore, in each Linux installations' /etc/default/grub, I have set 
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true to prevent these Linux installations' grubs 
to add entries for "foreign OSes".

Ralf