[SOLVED] Multiple booting

[biniman]

Hi All,
I have four partitions in my machine. Initiatlly, I had Windows Vista Business in one partion and Fedora 7 in another. The remaining two partions were used for storing basic files.

Because I was running out of space in the Windows Vista partion, I decided to intstall another Windows Vista Business in the third partion so that I can install Visual Studio 2008 Express edition in it. Fine, the two Windows run well, but sadly I can no longer boot Fedora 7. I am tempted to reinstall Fedora 7, but I am not sure if this will render any of the Windows partions unbootable. Nightmare! Besides, is it possible to have three bootable partitions in one machine?

Thanks for your concern.

Cheers!

biniman

[jayd512]

It's possible that installing Vista wrote over GRUB. Drop the Fedora CD in your CD-ROM, boot into rescue mode. Execute

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install
exit
exit

[biniman]

Thanks Jay. What is the full syntax for the above command? I followed the instructions and I got an error which says "install-device not specified". I am not strong in Linux, so I do not want to guess.

biniman

[biniman]

It's possible that installing Vista wrote over GRUB. Drop the Fedora CD in your CD-ROM, boot into rescue mode. Execute

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install
exit
exit

Thanks Jay. What is the full syntax for the above command? I followed the instructions and I got an error which says "install-device not specified". I am not strong in Linux, so I do not want to guess.

biniman

[jayd512]

Oh crap... I hate when that happens! Forgot a part of the command! It should have been

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/hdx
exit
exit

/dev/hdx being your / partition. You'll find that with

fdisk -l     (that's a small L, not a one)

Sorry about that!

[biniman]

I have run the commands. No errors, but I still cannot boot the Linux partition. I can only see options to boot any of the two Windows partitions. There is no option to boot Linux.

[jayd512]

Is it a Windows loader screen, or a GRUB loading screen?

[biniman]

Apology, but how do you mean? I do not know the difference between Windows loading screen and Grud loading screen.

[jayd512]

damn... that took some Google work!
Does your boot screen look like this... or a bit more like this?

Take notice of the top of the screen shots!

[biniman]

Sorry Jay,
I stepped out for a while. The screen looks like the first "this" (Windows loader screen).

biniman