I installed Fedora 13 to sdb7 and installed Grub to root all went well on install. But when I reboot it stops at Loading Partition. Any help???

Whats the exact error you're getting in the bootup screen?

What do you mean by installed GRUB to root ?
IF you mean by root the root partition than make you use of a other GRUB to boot Fedora 13
So the question is which boot loader are you using ?
And in that case did you update the the menu.lst or GRUB.cfg

If you dual-boot, then you have to set (on the already existing grub):

where X is partition numbered from the boot partition. If all partition numbers are successive, then your X should be 6.

This is How I boot.

Dual Booting Linux Distros With Windows 7 Pro Boot Loader

This by all means may not work for everybody.

I run an Intel DP35DP motherboard with 3.0 gig Intel processor with 4 gig of ram. Two 500 gig Sata hard drives. The first hard drive is for Windows 7 Pro. The second hard drive is for 6 different flavors of Linux, Swap and Data backups. Drive 2 the first three partitions are primary Linux. The next is extended swap, NTFS Extended (labeled data). The last three are extended Linux partitions. I used Parted Magic 4.6 to set these up).

Install all most any flavor of Linux on the second hard drive and use the automatic partitioning tool but don't put grub on your Master MBR put it on the root partition on your second drive. When you get to the Boot Loader Configuration screen make sure you use the advanced boot loader options. The next screen will give the option where to put Grub Boot Loader. It should say like sda or sdb. Sda is usually your Win 7 Drive. From their finish loading. Put Grub on sdbx (Note: Linux Mint, Ultimate 2.5 or any Distros using Ubuntu 9.10 have to be on a primary partition. Ubuntu 9.10 will not work on an extended partition).

Now duel booting using Win 7 Pro boot manager.

Go to neosmart.net and download and install in Win 7 EasyBCD 1.7.2 (It's freeware)

In Windows 7 Pro start EasyBCD. Under EasyBCD Toolbar select the add/remove entries button. Under add an entry select the Linux tab. Under type: select Grub. Under Name: put in what ever you want to call the Distro. Under Drive: select the drive you have Linux loaded on. The second drive should read Drive 1 Partitions 0-7. Leave Grub isn’t installed to Boot sector unchecked. Then select add entry. Under Manage existing entries select save then reboot.


When it starts to load grub it says Loading New partition then it just stops.

AH!, now it is more clear. 90% chance is that you selected the wrong partition according to :http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...91#post1356291

What I've discovered so far that if I install to an extended partition on reboot it just stalls at loading new partition, If I install to a primary partition and tell it to install grub to /dev/sdb3 it will overwrite my MBR. Still working the Issues at this time any suggestions.

Hmmmm, "extended" might be the key word. Check if grub is only able to boot from "primary" partitions. If so, you should create another "/boot" partition as primary (brake existing in half?) and use that.

it should not matter if grub is on a primary or extended

my current set up has grub for cent on sdb1 and grub for arch on sdb7

yes two installs of grub . i find it more convenient

but what you can NOT do in fedora is but grub on / if it is ext4
/boot must be ext3

During install I chose to load Fedora 13 to /dev/sdb7 (Which would be hd1,6 on my system) and install Grub to that partition. Since it’s my second drive the HD number should have been hd1,6 but during install it assigned it to hd0,6 which is my first drive. It loaded the system to /dev/sdb7. But since it was looking for the install on hd0,6 it hung on Loading Partitions. It also loaded Grub somewhere but not sure where.

Correction:

Boot DVD
Chose Rescue Installed System
English (Chose OK)
US (Chose OK)
Do you want to start the network interface on this system (Chose No)
Then chose continue
Then chose sdb7 Fedora 13 (Or whatever your system is loaded on)
Then chose OK
Then chose shell start shell
Chroot /mnt/sysimage
Now change directories /boot/grub
I use vi grub.conf
Press the I key to insert text
Rename splashimage from splashimage=(Hdo,6) to (Hdo1,6)
Rename root (Hdo,6) to (Hd1,6)
Press ESC to exit insert
Press shift : hit enter
Hit w (enter)
Press shift : hit enter
Hit q (enter)
You should still be in /boot/grub/
Grub-install /dev/sdb7 (or what ever you put grub)
sync;sync;exit;exit
Then reboot

You should be fixed

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