[SOLVED] Installed fedora can't access?

[sunote]

I have intsalled f17 for many times by cd or usb stick. The install process is sccessful. But if I reboot my computer, it load win7 directly and I have no chance to boot into f17.

As I readed the Installation Quick Start Guide, I find some difference. In the section of Boot Loader Configuration, I have clicked the "Change device " button and chosen /dev/sda3.But there is no Boot loader operating system list that I can configure the boot menu list.

What's wrong? Thanks.

My computer:
Fujitsu LH531 I3-3250. 4G Ram, 320GB HD. win7
sda1 win7 boot
sda2 win7 system
sda3 f17 /boot
bios ACHI is configured enable.

I want to boot my system via grub24dos, how can i do it?
Thanks again.

[bkerensa]

Sounds like the bootloader is having issues.

[stoat]

Originally Posted by sunote

In the section of Boot Loader Configuration, I have clicked the "Change device " button and chosen /dev/sda3.

As you know, when you do that, your existing boot loader has to be configured to boot GRUB and Fedora.

Originally Posted by sunote

But there is no Boot loader operating system list that I can configure the boot menu list.

Maybe there is.

If your hardware is using the traditional BIOS to boot instead of EFI, and GRUB really is installed in the boot sector of the Fedora boot partition, then you probably can use the free and popular software known as EasyBCD to add a menu entry for Fedora to the boot loader of Windows 7. If you still want to boot this way, then download and install EasyBCD in Windows 7, read the instructions at their web site, and submit questions and problems at their forum.

Originally Posted by sunote

I want to boot my system via grup24dos, how can i do it?

I guess by "system" you meant Fedora. GRUB for DOS is an excellent boot loader in its own right, but IMO there is no reason to go from BOOTMGR to GRUB4DOS to GRUB to Fedora when you can go from BOOTMGR to GRUB to Fedora. What I mean is, involving GRUB for DOS in the Windows 7 boot loader only complicates and lengthens the matter of booting Fedora without providing a benefit.

P.S.: While you are figuring all this out, you might be able to boot Fedora manually in the meantime. Try using a Super Grub 2 Disk to boot Fedora. That will do a couple of things: 1) confirm that Fedora is even capable of being booted, and 2) allow you to begin using and adjusting Fedora now even before you have finalized the boot loader scheme.

[sunote]

Thanks stoat。

Super Grub 2 Disk is a really exciting software. I used it to boot into f17. And I copy the grub.cfg file in /boot then reboot my laptop. I added the f17 boot menuentry in the file I have copied into the file under c:/grub2/grub.cfg and reboot it. Now I can load f17.

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Fedora (3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-22c02659-660d-4e46-82af-a447b9ab73b5' {
	set gfxpayload=keep
	insmod gzio
	insmod part_msdos
	insmod ext2
	set root='hd0,msdos3'
	if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos3 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos3 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos3 --hint='hd0,msdos3'  f7a477ad-5806-4bf9-a73a-eeed0a9630eb
	else
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f7a477ad-5806-4bf9-a73a-eeed0a9630eb
	fi
	echo 'Loading Fedora (3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64)'
	linux	/vmlinuz-3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vg_michael-lv02 ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0  KEYTABLE=us rd.lvm.lv=vg_michael/lv02 rd.lvm.lv=vg_michael/lv00 rd.luks=0 SYSFONT=True LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet
	echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
	initrd /initramfs-3.4.6-2.fc17.x86_64.img
}
submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora Linux' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-22c02659-660d-4e46-82af-a447b9ab73b5' {
}
if [ "x$default" = 'Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64' ]; then default='Advanced options for Fedora Linux>Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64'; fi;
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

The attachment is my grub.cfg for grub24dos.

[sunote]

If your hardware is using the traditional BIOS to boot instead of EFI, and GRUB really is installed in the boot sector of the Fedora boot partition, then you probably can use the free and popular software known as EasyBCD to add a menu entry for Fedora to the boot loader of Windows 7. If you still want to boot this way, then download and install EasyBCD in Windows 7, read the instructions at their web site, and submit questions and problems at their forum.

The software I am using is grub24dos. It's not GRUB for DOS. I think is the same as EasyBCD. Therae are both GUI tools for bcdedit.exe.

You can find it here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub24dos/

---------- Post added at 03:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:42 AM ----------

haha. grub24dos have a new name grub24win.

As of 2012-08-08, this project may now be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/grub2win/

[stoat]

Originally Posted by sunote

The software I am using is grub24dos. It's not GRUB for DOS. I think is the same as EasyBCD. Therae are both GUI tools for bcdedit.exe.

You can find it here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub24dos/

haha. grub24dos have a new name grub24win.

As of 2012-08-08, this project may now be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/grub2win/

Thanks for the clarification and the link to the Grub2Win home page. To me, this is an important new (sort of) thing that many people here will eventually be interested in.

The ancestors of Grub2Win, which are known as GRUB for DOS (aka GRUB4DOS) and WINGRUB (the Windows GUI version), have been around for many years. I still use GRUB for DOS as my main boot loader. But I had not heard of Grub24Dos or Grub2Win until now. I guess that's understandable since the oldest version of it is dated just last year, and since searching Google with grub24dos site:fedoraforum.org yields only this thread at this moment.

Originally Posted by Project description of Grub2Win from its sourceforge home page

Description

Note: This project was previously called Grub24Dos. Over 9,000 people worldwide use it.

This is a follow-on to the popular legacy grub4dos project. Grub2Win supports booting the more modern grub2 directly from Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista.

Download this simple set of scripts and instructions that allow you to get grub2 booting quickly.

There is an alternative download "grub2xp.zip" for Windows XP and Windows 2000 users. You can find it by clicking the "Files" tab of this project.

License
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

Features

• Supports Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista and Windows 2008 Server
• Simple Windows GUI easily installs Grub2Win in seconds
• Preview and select themes during the install
• Supports extremely large (over 4 TB) disks and partitions
• Works with GPT disks - up to 128 primary partitions per disk drive
• No registry changes and no changes to the Windows MBR
• Safely multiboot Windows, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, BSD and more
• All files are on the Windows C: drive - configuration in Linux is not required
• Supports Mac hfs and hfsplus partitions
• Runs native, open source GNU grub code with frequent releases
• Includes Grub Invaders
• Requres just 1 directory on the Windows C: drive, less than 5 MB disk space
• No Adware or Spyware
• Alternative download "grub2xp.zip" is for Windows XP & Windows 2000 users

I think this is important enough for a HOWTO here in the Guides and Solutions sub-forum. I nominate you, sunote, for the job of writing it. I volunteer to help as needed. If you don't do it, then I will do the whole thing. However, I don't use (or like) GRUB 2, and I don't even own a version of Windows to which Grub2Win applies. So if you don't write the guide, and I do it, perhaps you at least can test the steps for me.

[sunote]

OK。I will try it。Thanks。