Fedora 13 With Windows 7

Ashish Sood · 08-24-2010, 12:55 PM

Guys,

I have problem with bootloader , mean to say , after installing fedora 13 my windows 7 bootloader will overwrite , and when i install windows7 boot loader my fedora 13 bootloader will overwrite vice versa, please tell me the exact solution how can i overcome with this problem , i already fed lot doing this .

Thanks In Advance
Ashish Sood

TB0ne · 08-24-2010, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashish Sood

Guys,
I have problem with bootloader , mean to say , after installing fedora 13 my windows 7 bootloader will overwrite , and when i install windows7 boot loader my fedora 13 bootloader will overwrite vice versa, please tell me the exact solution how can i overcome with this problem , i already fed lot doing this .

Since you are already "fed lot doing this", did you try to look this up? From the Fedora forums:

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=237902
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=240851

And without details, such as what your partiton table looks like, if you're running LVM's, primary/extended partions, etc., there's not alot we can tell you. Those threads on Fedora Forum have details.

Ashish Sood · 08-25-2010, 12:06 PM

Thanks For reply TBone

i read your post , the problem was similar as my one but didnt got exact answer .

i will post my partition table entry

this is the output of my fdisk -l command

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa0000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 25 200781 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 26 1984 15728640 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 * 1984 5808 30720000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 5808 38914 265919488 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 5808 12182 51200000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 12183 18710 52428800 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 18710 22626 31457280 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 26686 27207 4192255+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9 27208 30471 26214400 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda10 22626 22639 102400 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 22639 25903 26214400 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda12 30471 31777 10485760 8e Linux LVM

And this is the output of my grub.conf file

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,9)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_root-log_root
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,9)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_root-log_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_root/log_root rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686.PAE.img
title Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

TB0ne · 08-25-2010, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashish Sood

Thanks For reply TBone

i read your post , the problem was similar as my one but didnt got exact answer .

i will post my partition table entry

You're not going to get an EXACT answer. The solution is to look at those, and make the solution fit your partition tables. You're going to have to apply some thought to it. The steps are in those posts...follow them.

Ashish Sood · 08-25-2010, 12:19 PM

Thanks for your comment

As i saw the answer and some i try , but but not getting rid up from this problem .

Timothy Miller · 08-25-2010, 12:49 PM

If Fedora 13 uses the updated grub2, you need to change your (hd0,1) to (hd0,2) for Windows to boot since hd0,1 is your Dell restore partition (they changed Grub at some point so that hd0,0 no longer exists and the first partition is now hd0,1...causes all manner of havock for me because a couple of my laptops have the newer version, a couple don't)

If not, then it's something else, but that jumped out at me.

Ashish Sood · 08-25-2010, 01:12 PM

Thanks A alot Timothy Miller finally i got success after lots of try , again lots of thanks to u