Where did you install the Boot Loader too? Cause if you followed that guide completely, you would have been presented with GRUB right after the install of Fedora and would have had to fix the Windows Boot loader in order to get back into Windows to use EasyBCD. The guide states to place the GRUB on the first partition of the first drive, that is where the MBR is located and that would mean that you would have to fix Windows to get back.
So did you use GRUB to get back into Windows to use EasyBCD or did it just boot directly to Windows?
Well, in reviewing the text in the guide article, it says the following:
• Tick Install boot loader on ..., and click the Change device
button.
Select First sector of boot partition - /dev/sd** and click
OK
(/dev/sd** is the Device name you noted above, like /dev/sda3 or /dev/sdb1).
I do remember selecting that "First sector of boot partition" radio button during the Fedora install.
When I got done installing Fedora and rebooted, I was taken immediately to the normal Windows boot menu.
I did not see GRUB. I believe Fedora got installed in a partition on my second hard drive--
because if I run this command under GRUBDOS:
> root (hd1,2)
it says "Filesystem type is ext2fs, partitiontype 0x83".
And if I run this command:
> cat (hd1,2)/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
it does show the contents of a Linux configuration file.
I don't specifically see a mention in the guide that GRUB has to be on the first partition ON THE FIRST HARD DRIVE.
But if you say it has to be that way, I could try reinstalling and putting the boot loader on the first drive.
In the meantime, is there an easy way just to force the Windows boot menu entry for Fedora to boot from (hd1,2)
[or wherever it needs to point]?
Thank you,
-john
Addendum
OK, I installed Fedora on my first HD.
This caused GRUB to get installed in the MBR and I was able to start Fedora that way.
But I don't want to use the GRUB boot menu; I just want to use the Windows boot menu(!) I don't need two (2) boot menus!
So I quickly overwrote GRUB in the MBR by reinstalling the Windows MBR. That put me back to just the Windows boot menu.
Next I went back to EasyBCD and picked the "Linux/BSD" tab and selected the "GRUB 2" type.
The Device shows "(Automatically configured)", and clicked the "Add Entry" button as before.
PROBLEM: After rebooting, I still get the "GRUB4DOS" prompt when I try to boot up into Fedora.
However, once at the "GRUB4DOS" prompt, I determined that I can successfully boot into Fedora by running the following commands in sequence:
kernel (hd0,6)/vmlinuz-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 root=/dev/sdb3
initrd (hd0,6)/initramfs_3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64.img
boot
Given that this set of commands works,
is there an easy way just to issue these commands automatically when the Fedora boot option is selected on the Windows boot menu? That would solve my problem.
Thank you,
john
Addendum
Also, discovered that issuing the following commands from the GRUB4DOS command-prompt brings up the GRUB menu, allowing me to boot into Fedora:
kernel (hd0,6)/grub2/i386-pc/core.img
boot
So again, is there any simple way of sticking this command inside the Windows boot menu?