Dual booting using fedora 9


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Hi,

I have two 250 gig hard drives. Hardrive 1 is devoted to windows xp, harddrive two has some windows programs on it. I've repartitioned hardrive 2 into 130 gig for windows ( keeping the windows software), 120 gig for fedora. The fedora partion was formatted with a 1 gig swap and the rest is /. Fedora installed without problem. how do I have a choice which OS I boot into? it boots into windows xp only.

Thanks,

GrahamD

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Hi,

I have two 250 gig hard drives. Hardrive 1 is devoted to windows xp, harddrive two has some windows programs on it. I've repartitioned hardrive 2 into 130 gig for windows ( keeping the windows software), 120 gig for fedora. The fedora partion was formatted with a 1 gig swap and the rest is /. Fedora installed without problem. how do I have a choice which OS I boot into? it boots into windows xp only.

Thanks,

GrahamD

At bootup time it should give you a menu with the choices of OS to run and a timer to autoload the default OS if you don't make a choice in time. How many seconds to you have the time on?

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My the harddrive with fedora on it master or install grub4dos on the windows one. In both case you will have to adapt your menu.lst. But it will be faster and less painfull to just make the fedora drive master and reinstall fedora (if you did some fine package tweak, then you can try the first method, but if you used default option, go for a reinstalation).

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Sounds like you changed the default action of having the installer put grub on the MBR of your boot drive. ;)

It would have set up dual booting for you without you having to do this part manually.

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