Hi All,
Firstly, EasyBCD looks like a great tool - wish I'd known about it before!
Having said that, I'm having some issues with my first attempt. I've just bought a new HDD and installed Fedora Linux 13 64bit (with a BOOT partition, and a home and swap partition in a Logical Volume, as is standard for Fedora). So currently it looks like this:
hd0/sda
- Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows bootloader ( I guess)
hd1/sdb
- NTFS HDD just for data, no OS
hd2/sdc (the new one)
sdc1 - BOOT -> the Fedora boot partition. Grub installed here (Grub 2 I guess)
sdc2 - Linux partition with the VG on it.
When installing Linux, I'd read the EasyBCD documentation page about dual-booting to Linux, so I installed Grub to the BOOT partition of the Linux disk, and *not* to the bootloader on my Vista disk, which is what the doc page said.
So, now:
(1) If I add a "Legacy Grub" menu item in EasyBCD, and point it to my BOOT partition, it appears on the Vista startup menu, but just hangs at a flashing prompt. Probably because it's Grub2.
(2) If I add a Grub2 item, it doesn't let me configure it, but seems to think it will find it on C:, which of course it won't. Booting to this option gives me a GRUB4DOS screen with a "Grub" prompt.
I'm a bit stuck as to what to do now, except give up on EasyBCD and just re-install Linux and stick GRUB on my MBR instead.
Can some kind soul explain to me what I'm doing wrong? Happy to provide more info if needed.
Thanks,
auryx
Firstly, EasyBCD looks like a great tool - wish I'd known about it before!
Having said that, I'm having some issues with my first attempt. I've just bought a new HDD and installed Fedora Linux 13 64bit (with a BOOT partition, and a home and swap partition in a Logical Volume, as is standard for Fedora). So currently it looks like this:
hd0/sda
- Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows bootloader ( I guess)
hd1/sdb
- NTFS HDD just for data, no OS
hd2/sdc (the new one)
sdc1 - BOOT -> the Fedora boot partition. Grub installed here (Grub 2 I guess)
sdc2 - Linux partition with the VG on it.
When installing Linux, I'd read the EasyBCD documentation page about dual-booting to Linux, so I installed Grub to the BOOT partition of the Linux disk, and *not* to the bootloader on my Vista disk, which is what the doc page said.
So, now:
(1) If I add a "Legacy Grub" menu item in EasyBCD, and point it to my BOOT partition, it appears on the Vista startup menu, but just hangs at a flashing prompt. Probably because it's Grub2.
(2) If I add a Grub2 item, it doesn't let me configure it, but seems to think it will find it on C:, which of course it won't. Booting to this option gives me a GRUB4DOS screen with a "Grub" prompt.
I'm a bit stuck as to what to do now, except give up on EasyBCD and just re-install Linux and stick GRUB on my MBR instead.
Can some kind soul explain to me what I'm doing wrong? Happy to provide more info if needed.
Thanks,
auryx