Dual Boot

Post by **Kills On Site** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:53 pm

Well I completely destroyed my Fedora Core 5 install in order to try Vista. Not a big deal, I hadn't really done anything to it. However in the Disk Management part of the MMC I noticed that you can shrink a volume. I was thinking that I could shink the volume to about half way then make sure the new half is unallocated and install Fedora Core 5 on it. I am going to use GRUB as the boot loader and wonder if anyone has tips or warnings before trying this.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:16 pm

partition magic

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:25 am

Well I shrunk the partition and installed Fedora Core 5, however I fucked it up after updating the kernel trying to install the nVIDIA driver. That was strange, I did nothing out of the ordinary, just an sh and it ran.

A few questions, how do you make grub wait longer till it boots the default choice. How do you change the default choice. How do change the displayed name in the grub choice menu.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:35 am

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showth ... readid=996

does that help?

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:51 am

You should USE GAG as your boot manager.

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Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:01 am

FragaGeddon wrote:You should try GAG as your boot manager.

GaG rocks..

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:25 am

I like the look of this GAG. Any tips or tricks of how to use it with Fedora and Vista? Currently Vista is installed and the Fedora hard drive space is currently unallocated.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:54 am

Kills On Site wrote:I like the look of this GAG. Any tips or tricks of how to use it with Fedora and Vista? Currently Vista is installed and the Fedora hard drive space is currently unallocated.

Just install both, then install gag.. tell gag what to do.. its pretty simple really..

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:24 am

Well I had Fedora Core 5 with GRUB installed and tried GAG. It works fine with Windows Vista, but did not work with either of the partitions created by Fedora Core 5. So I reinstalled it with Fedora Core 5 and selected no boot loader and Fedora Core 5 still created the two partitions and neither of them work with GAG.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:28 am

Well apon reinstalling Fedora Core 5 I selected to put GRUB on the volume rather then in the MBR. So as of now everything, as far as dual booting Fedora Core 5 and Vista is going smoothly. Once I recieve Ubuntu Dapper Drake I shall attempt to make it part of the boot senario also.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:01 pm

Odd.. Fedora Core 5 was what i ran when i used GaG.. O_o

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:22 pm

Well GAG will reckonize any operating system, even the new Vista.