Fedora 13 and windows 7 dual boot help

[sanjay_2001]

i have windows 7 installed in one of my 1TB HDD1. i have a 260 GB HDD2 i deleted all the partition and tried to install fedora 13 x86_64 in it . installation went well . during installation it did not ask me for boot loader (grub) and when the pc restarted it ended in
Grub rescue>
what should i do or should i have to reinstall it or any other way to work!!

[devils casper]

Unplugg 260GB Hard disk and set 1TB Hard disk as First Boot Device in BIOS. Does Windows 7 boot up?

[sanjay_2001]

my main drive in 1TB cos windows installed i fixed using bootfix command. secondary is 260 gb but i need dual boot for it

[devils casper]

Disconnect 1 TB disk. Keep 260 GB disk plugged in and re-install Fedora in it.
After successful installation, boot up Fedora and add an entry of Windows 7 in its GRUB.

To do that, open Terminal and execute this

su -
nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

It will open grub.conf file in nano editor.
Add this code at the end of file :

title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file.
Shutdown machine and plug-in 1 TB Hard disk. Set 260GB Hard disk as First Boot Device in BIOS.
That's all ! You have options to boot up either Windows 7 or Fedora at startup.

[Tx_Taz]

i have windows 7 installed in one of my 1TB HDD1. i have a 260 GB HDD2 i deleted all the partition and tried to install fedora 13 x86_64 in it . installation went well . during installation it did not ask me for boot loader (grub) and when the pc restarted it ended in
Grub rescue>
what should i do or should i have to reinstall it or any other way to work!!

It did not ask you to install a boot loader because you were not doing a dual boot. A dual boot would be on ONE hd, not two. I have fedora and 7 loaded on my little laptop (160gig) without any issues. I partitioned my drive and loaded fedora on it and it asked about a bootloader. Now when I boot up I get an option screen first.

[devils casper]

dual boot would be on ONE hd, not two.

Dual boot setup means booting up two OSes using single boot loader and it doesn't mean that you should have both OSes in Single Hard disk. If you have two Hard disks having one OS each and you are using single boot loader to boot up both OSes, it's a dual boot setup only.

[Tx_Taz]

Dual boot setup means booting up two OSes using single boot loader and it doesn't mean that you should have both OSes in Single Hard disk. If you have two Hard disks having one OS each and you are using single boot loader to boot up both OSes, it's a dual boot setup only.

I apologize for my over simplified answer. I was refering to the MBR. When loading a complete system on a solitary disk it will have its own MBR and it will not know of any other OS on the system.
From what I read above he had 2 drives each with their own OS and is having issues with being able to dual boot.
That is because he is using 2 seperate drives and neither one knows about the other.
Had he put in a partition and then loaded fedora, he would have one MBR with all the information needed to dual boot, along with a bootloader.

[devils casper]

That is because he is using 2 seperate drives and neither one knows about the other.

But both Hard disks were plugged in during installation and none of Hard disk was disabled.

If you have two Hard disks in single machine even then installer will detect all OSes installed in both disks and setup dual ( or multi ) boot.

You are not getting actual idea behind dual booting. As I mentioned earlier, it doesn't matter if OSes have been installed in Single or multiple Hard disks. I have 3 Hard disks in my machine. Whenever I install any Linux OS in any of partition of any Hard disk, its installer detects OSes installed in all 3 Hard disks and setup Multiboot.

I agree that installer will install Boot Loader in MBR of only one disk but it doesn't mean that Installer will not detect OSes installed in other disk and setup dual boot.

[rakeshjs]

Devils Casper,

i followed the steps mentioned by, but still couldn't have a dual boot.

I have 2 HDD

1. 1TB where i have installed Windows7
2. 160GB where i have installed Fedora 14

Both of them are working fine when i set the corresponding drive as the default HDD on Bios.

I changed the grub.conf with the details of Windows 7 & set the 160GB HDD as the default drive but still dual boot is not working.