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Old 28th October 2012, 04:30 PM
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Can't Boot Fedora 17 Dual Boot

Hi everyone, I have a laptop ,toshiba, there are two disks. One is SSD and the other one is HDD.
Window7 is on SSD and Fedora 17 is on HDD.

Here is my question. I installed fedora 17 after window7. And after reboot it just boot window7 directly.
I tried installing Easybcd on windows7 and added a new entry. Fedora appears in the windows boot manager.
But, if I select fedora ,it will enter to grub2 and I have to select it again.
Is there any way to solve it? Let grub2 or windows boot manager exists only.

This is the code I boot from liveusb and fdisk -l
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0f7d9ca0

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048     3074047     1536000   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2         3074048   205322239   101124096    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       205322240   234440703    14559232   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x27c6815e

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1            2048  1044482047   522240000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2   *  1044482048  1456130047   205824000   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3      1456130048  1465147391     4508672   82  Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/mapper/live-rw: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min: 4294 MB, 4294967296 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders, total 8388608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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Old 30th October 2012, 12:03 AM
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Re: Can't Boot Fedora 17 Dual Boot

One explanation is that your BIOS is booting from the HDD first, and if you installed Fedora on the SSD then I think it would by default install grub on the SSD. Possible solution would be to reinstall Fedora and tell anaconda to install the bootloader on /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb. Or you could look around your BIOS and get it to boot from your SSD first.

Not 100% sure though
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