Fedora 12 Dual Boot Issue

ole_ersoy · #1 16th February 2010, 04:48 PM

Hi,

I followed these instructions to dual boot fedora and windows 7 on my gateway laptop:

http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/...ual_booting%29

Whenever I try to load windows, gateway recovery management starts up, and I can't get passed this point. I tried just exiting, which just loops me back to where I started. I also tried running the option that restores windows files. And this was unsuccessful as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
- Ole

#2 16th February 2010, 05:47 PM

Hello,

It sounds like you have your boot loader pointed at the wrong partition.

Hope this helps,

Ky

stoat · #3 16th February 2010, 08:24 PM

I agree with that. It happens all the time. The partition with the Windows boot loader files is very commonly the next partition. Anaconda (the Fedora installer) is a sucker to fall for utility partitions as the Windows partitions. Study the results of these, and you may be able to figure out how to edit the "Other" section of the grub.conf file and correct it...

Code:

su
fdisk -l
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf

Then open grub.conf for editing with this...

Code:

su
gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf

If you don't see what to do or try something that doesn't work, then post those things here. Someone will probably see something for you to try.

ole_ersoy · #4 16th February 2010, 08:38 PM

My grub.conf file currently has this in it:

title windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainload +1

Fedora put that there
I see 3 partitions in dolphin:
PQSERVICE
SYSTEM RESERVED
GATEWAY

Do you know of anything I could read up on to figure out what to point to?

Thanks,
- Ole

stoat · #5 16th February 2010, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ole_ersoy

My grub.conf file currently has this in it:

title windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainload +1

Fedora put that there
I see 3 partitions in dolphin:
PQSERVICE
SYSTEM RESERVED
GATEWAY

Do you know of anything I could read up on to figure out what to point to?

Yes, the best thing is this...

Code:

su
fdisk -l

That usually reveals all. Or, at least it makes the guesswork easier.

P.S.: It's okay to post the whole thing here if you need help with it.

ole_ersoy · #6 16th February 2010, 10:08 PM

Super - Thanks guys. I tried:

rootnoverify (hd0,1)

and it works.

Thanks again!
Ole