Triple Boot or Dual with Fedora, no CD boot
In a nutshell, I want to try Fedora, but the laptop I am wanting to use refuses to boot from CD regardless of what I do. It also does not have the option to boot from USB.
I have installed Ubuntu (10) as a dual boot (or rather Ubuntu cleverly did!). This was possible as the install works within windows (the drive itself does work, just cannot boot from it). I would have preferred Fedora but there isn't an image available that will create the dual boot in the same way as Ubuntu (that I am aware of). ANYWAY - anybody got any ideas how I could get Fedora on here? I guess I could create a partition for it and copy soem sort of 'live' image there, and maybe add this to GRUB for triple boot, but I don't know if this is feasible or how to do it. Any help gratefully received! Be gentle on me though - I am new to Linux and want to try something different to the monster that is Windows!! :) |
hey muckybucket
so, you do have grub installed or no? if you have grub/lilo, even the dindows boot loader you can use Plop bootmanager executable "plpbt" it can/will boot hdd, usb, cdrom, usb-cdrom, etc even on pc's that wont boot a usb,etc This is how I boot usb's, etc off my PC I make most of my distro's on it cant boot from usb, but plop goes around BIOS anyway, heres link to one I use Download> plpbt it doesn't install anywhere or anything just put it in boot folder just add this to grub1 or grub2 Grub Legacy Code:
title Plop BootManager Code:
menuentry "Plop BootManager" { if you put it in ubuntu's boot folder just use ubuntus grub entry and edit as above remember to use "linux16" for grub2 then you can put fedora on the stick and install |
Thanks, I'll try that! I think I have GRUB, when the machine boots, initially I get a choice between XP and Ubuntu. When I choose Ubuntu I get the list of previous versions, or if I choose XP it boots straight into windows.
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do you ubuntu installed into windows? like wubi or pubuntu? or are you dual-booting? a seperate partition for ubuntu? |
What/where is 'grub1' or 'grub2'? Have a file called 'grub' in the grub folder in boot...
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you should have a file named grub.conf or menu.lst?
in /boot/grub open either and copy/paste it into your next post |
I have grub.cfg in boot/grub/
Copied here: # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then load_env fi set default="0" if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry} save_env saved_entry set prev_saved_entry= save_env prev_saved_entry set boot_once=true fi function savedefault { if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then saved_entry=${chosen} save_env saved_entry fi } function recordfail { set recordfail=1 if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi } if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then set timeout=-1 else set timeout=10 fi ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### set menu_color_normal=white/black set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_lupin ### menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.32-22-generic" { insmod ntfs set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2c7817167816df00 loopback loop0 /ubuntu/disks/root.disk set root=(loop0) linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic } menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode)" { insmod ntfs set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2c7817167816df00 loopback loop0 /ubuntu/disks/root.disk set root=(loop0) linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic } menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.32-21-generic" { insmod ntfs set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2c7817167816df00 loopback loop0 /ubuntu/disks/root.disk set root=(loop0) linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic } menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.32-21-generic (recovery mode)" { insmod ntfs set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2c7817167816df00 loopback loop0 /ubuntu/disks/root.disk set root=(loop0) linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_lupin ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### ### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Professional (on /dev/sda1)" { insmod ntfs set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2c7817167816df00 drivemap -s (hd0) ${root} chainloader +1 } ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### |
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looks like its mounting ubuntu loopback... so, where is the /boot/grub folder? inside windows? I dont have windows thats why I ask:) if you find the ubutnu /boot folder put plpbt in there and add this to your grub.conf Code:
menuentry "Plop BootManager" { |
I loaded Ubuntu into Windows, so it exists within there... What I really wanted to do was to create two partitions and load Fedora on one, Ubuntu on the other...
I'll try that! |
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so, you wanna do a true multiboot setup with windows and linux* on different partitions? Please post specs about your PC AND do you have a windows recovery cd? and backup your files on windows somewhere safe(usb) |
Getting 'unknown command Linux16' error
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Yes, I would like to know how to create a true multi boot machine! What has stopped me so far is the inability of the machine in question to boot from CD or USB...
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System is a Toshiba Tecra laptop (A3)
Memory 740.7 MiB Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) M Processor 1.73GHz Hard Disk around 80gb I think Running XP normally... |
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did you add Plop to the grub.conf? and you ready or still gotta backup stuff? |
still getting the linux16 error
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