Hi, I have a triple boot machine that works fine. I've configured it in the following manner:

C:\ Drive: Microsoft Vista Ultimate
D:\ Drive: Microsoft XP Professional
E:\ Drive: Microsoft Server 2003 Enterprise

I've also created a 4th logical partition where I've installed FC6 onto it. I've done what I think are all of the necessary commands when booted into MS Vista to create the necessary entry to boot into FC6. The entry shows up on the list of OS's to choose from on boot up, however when I DO select it, my screen goes blank, I see my cursor blinking in the upper right-hand corner and eventually my hard drive stops making the normal noises you'd hear if something was booting up.

I did create a file named linux.img with the following command when booted into knoppix linux:

sudo dd if=/dev/hda7 of=./linux.img bs=512 count=1

I then copied the linux.img file to my USB Flash, rebooted and copied it to my C:\ drive.

When creating the entry for BCDedit for Vista, I used the following steps (from a response off experts-exchange.com). These steps work fine in terms of actually getting the entry into the BCD Store:

1) extract 512 bytes from Linux partition: dd if=/dev/linuxpartition of=/linux.img bs=512 count=1
2) put the linux.img into your Vista's root directory (C:\)
3) using command prompt in Vista do: bdedit /copy {ntldr} /d "Linux"
** there will be a message that the entry has been copied to {HexNumber}
4) then issue the command: bcdedit /set {HexNumber} device boot
** replace the HexNumber with the actual number from Step (3)
5) next do: bcdedit /set {HexNumber} path \linux.img linux.img
6) make it into the last entry: bcdedit /displayorder {HexNumber} /addlast

Note that I tried both the initial step #1 and also with the command stated above (sudo dd if=/dev/hda7 of=./linux.img bs=512 count=1)

Basically, I'm not interested in using the Linux loader. I would rather use the one from Windows Vista...just a personal preference.

Can someone help me out with this, trying to get Linux to load on my PC?

I just also tried using a program called Easy BCD 1.52. It's suppose to be able to edit your BCD Store without you having to use the command line utility. I had no luck. I used the following setting when adding an entry:
Type: GRUB
Name: Red Hat Linux Fedora Core 6
Hard Drive: 0
Partition: 7 (where I installed Linux to...it has the ext3 file system).

Upon using these settings, rebooting, selecting Red Hat Linux Fedora Core 6 on the boot-up screen, I received the following error:

File:\NSD\nst_grub.mbr
Error: 0xc0000000f

You want to run GNU/Linux but are not "interested" in using the GNU/Linux GRUB bootloader but something to do with Vista. I'll move this thread to the appropriate forum (General), then.

Sorry i'm not familiar with Vista, it hasn't been released yet.

I also tried installing the Fedora boot loader. So, I get the blue screen, press <ENTER> and it reveals all of my choices for OS's. I then select Fedora Core 6 (and a bunch of other numbers), and it starts to load and I see something on the screen.

I get to the point to where it says Starting udev, and it stops. I then wait for a few minutes, then press CTRL+ALT+F1, and a few other things pop up and it stops again. I was told on another board to press this keystroke sequence View this screen shot (taken from my cell phone) to see what I've got. If I remember correctly, it then only responds to CTRL+ALT+DEL which as we know, restarts the computer.

So apparently I didn't have something set up correctly in my Vista BCD store. I realize you all may not be familiar with Vista yet, but apparently there is another problem here at large, since I am now actually using the FC6 boot loader, and that's that FC6 isn't loading correctly...it hangs at the above screen shot.

I have had FC4 installed on my computer before and it worked fine. I'm not interested in it, only FC6.


This was an issue of installing Linux FC6. I thought I'd posted it in the correct forum (Distributions>Fedora>Installing) but I guess not.

Well thats no excuse.

I get to the point to where it says Starting udev, and it stops.
See if adding boot flags like (one, a few, or all) acpi=off hda=noprobe hdc=noprobe selinux=0 make FC boot (replace hda and hdc for the HD and CDROM you have). If not boot your rescue CD, issue "chkconfig kudzu off" and reboot. If that doesn't work, realise FC6 is bleeding edge which means *you* unfortunately do the bleeding and check Fedora's Bugzilla for similar issues. If none add it with your HW details.


This was an issue of installing Linux FC6.
I only saw you going on about Vista's BCD, not GRUB: which means (at that time) it appeared to be not about GNU/Linux.


And your excuse for not adding something constructive to this thread is what?

How do I do this?