Thus you you cant directly boot win7 from grub.
With the xp win7 combo win7 im using the bootmgr in XP which is a primary partition so it can install win7 into a logical partition. Try again and it should boot GRUB allowing to choose Microsoft or Linux, then from Microsoft XP or WIN7. When the install is complete and you reboot and if it boots windows use a drive util to change the partition 2 as the active boot partition, fedora doesn't allows do this for some reason? Ranish is good tool for this. When you reach the GRUB setup of the installation add Partition 1 as a chain boot device sda1 or hda1 depending on your drive type. Set partition 3 as '/' and the last logical as swap.
Partion 2 is my small ext3 or 4 set bootable as '/boot'. a number of storage ntfs and ext4 partitions and the last is a SWAP partition of 2gb.Īfter installing the MS stuff I grab linux and install using a manual partition setup for bootable partition 2 not MBR. Mines around 75mb but it depends on your min sector size.
Partition 2 as small ext3 partion for linux /boot marked as bootable in the table. (Please note this is an MBR not gpt as OS's such as XP doesn't recognise GPT partitions).Tip: Allows put the extended last on the end of the drive and fill the drive as other OS's will get moody if you put and extended in the middle of drive with a primary either side. Or you can have up to 3 primary partitions and extended partition table containing a number of logical partitions. Logical drives are not natively boolable by the BIOS as they as stored in an extended table. The snag was the MBR system is it only allows you to boot from one of the max of four primary partitions on the drive. But the principle is the same for single drive.įirstly I partition the drive and then installed XP and then installed Win7 allowing Win7 to setup the MS boot manger to handle alternate boot of XP or Win7. But using the GRUB in the linux of choice may work out easer for you in the long run than setting up the /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-server and the /boot/initrd.img required to boot fedora from another booter ? This is how mine works, which is actually a mirror raid pair. I have a triple boot for system of XP, Win7 and Linux which may offer you some clues.
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