leonardevens
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I had a Windows 7/Fedora 14 dual boot system running successfully. I had Windows 7 on /dev/sda and Linux on /dev/sdb. I had set it up using EASY BCD.
I then installed Fedora 17 Linux on /dev/sdb and I thought I had put grub in the first sector of /dev/sdb1 which was mounted on /boot. But I can't set up EASY BCD to boot Fedora. I am now trying EASBCD 2.12. I seem to have two choices.
I can choose grub(legacy) and specify /dev/sdb1 as the location or I can choose grub2. In the first case, when I try to boot Fedora, I get a single word on the screen saying GRUB and nothing happens. In the second case, I can't specify the location and it seems to want to put it in \C, which I'm sure is wrong.
When I use a Fedora 17 Live CD to boot, I don't find what iexpect in /boot/grub or /boot/grub2.
Can anyone tell me what is going onand what to do?
Addendum
I've made some progress. Using the grub2 option, when I try to boot Fedora 17, I get put in a grub shell. By using a kernel and initrd command, I can speecify what is in /boot, and then boot ends up booting Fedora 17.
But I still haven't figure out how to auomate the process.
There seems to be someting seriously wrong here. I think Fedora 17 made some changes with grub, and EASY BCD can't deal with them. It is a shame because it all worked flawlessly on previous versions of Fedora, at least up to Fedora 15.
I hope the makers of Easy BCD will figure out what is wrong and come up with a solution sometime in my lifetime.
I then installed Fedora 17 Linux on /dev/sdb and I thought I had put grub in the first sector of /dev/sdb1 which was mounted on /boot. But I can't set up EASY BCD to boot Fedora. I am now trying EASBCD 2.12. I seem to have two choices.
I can choose grub(legacy) and specify /dev/sdb1 as the location or I can choose grub2. In the first case, when I try to boot Fedora, I get a single word on the screen saying GRUB and nothing happens. In the second case, I can't specify the location and it seems to want to put it in \C, which I'm sure is wrong.
When I use a Fedora 17 Live CD to boot, I don't find what iexpect in /boot/grub or /boot/grub2.
Can anyone tell me what is going onand what to do?
Addendum
I had a Windows 7/Fedora 14 dual boot system running successfully. I had Windows 7 on /dev/sda and Linux on /dev/sdb. I had set it up using EASY BCD.
I then installed Fedora 17 Linux on /dev/sdb and I thought I had put grub in the first sector of /dev/sdb1 which was mounted on /boot. But I can't set up EASY BCD to boot Fedora. I am now trying EASBCD 2.12. I seem to have two choices.
I can choose grub(legacy) and specify /dev/sdb1 as the location or I can choose grub2. In the first case, when I try to boot Fedora, I get a single word on the screen saying GRUB and nothing happens. In the second case, I can't specify the location and it seems to want to put it in \C, which I'm sure is wrong.
When I use a Fedora 17 Live CD to boot, I don't find what iexpect in /boot/grub or /boot/grub2.
Can anyone tell me what is going onand what to do?
I've made some progress. Using the grub2 option, when I try to boot Fedora 17, I get put in a grub shell. By using a kernel and initrd command, I can speecify what is in /boot, and then boot ends up booting Fedora 17.
But I still haven't figure out how to auomate the process.
There seems to be someting seriously wrong here. I think Fedora 17 made some changes with grub, and EASY BCD can't deal with them. It is a shame because it all worked flawlessly on previous versions of Fedora, at least up to Fedora 15.
I hope the makers of Easy BCD will figure out what is wrong and come up with a solution sometime in my lifetime.