Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together [LWN.net]

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted May 26, 2004 16:47 UTC (Wed) by horen (subscriber, #2514)
Parent article: Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

An alternative -- one which I chose to use -- is to "bite the bullet" and add an additional hard drive, devoted solely-to and onto-which your Windows installation will be placed.

I took an old 5.1GB Seagate drive (IDE), and jumpered it as the second drive (slave/hdb). Next, I disconnected the 80-pin ribbon cable from the first drive (master/hda), put a *legal* Windows/XP CD in the CDROM, and then rebooted the host.

Following the successful installation, I halted the host, reconnected the ribbon cable to the first/master drive and then booted the host. Since I have been using GRUB, it booted right into FC/2. I then added the following stanza to /boot/grub/grub.conf:

title Windows XP Pro [Hebrew-enabled]
map (hd0,0) (hd1,0)
map (hd1,0) (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

Use the command "info grub" to learn about the map, rootnoverify, and chainloader commands.

Finally, reboot your host and, when the GRUB splashscreen appears, move the cursor down to the "Windows" entry and press return.

It works like a champ, for me; should for you, too.

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Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted May 26, 2004 17:10 UTC (Wed) by mongre26 (guest, #4224) [Link]

Adding an additional hard drive is often not possible for people that use Dual Boot laptops, something that occurs where I work very often.

At this point I cannot recommend FC2, they need to re-spin with a fix for this. No Linux up to this point has had this issue, neither should FC2.

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted May 26, 2004 19:18 UTC (Wed) by djao (subscriber, #4263) [Link]

No Linux up to this point has had this issue, neither should FC2.

Actually, Mandrake and SuSE both had this same issue before Fedora 2. The bug, if you want to call it a bug, is with linux 2.6 in general, not with any distribution in particular.

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted May 27, 2004 1:03 UTC (Thu) by allenp (subscriber, #5654) [Link]

Just a data point: I added FC2 to a Dell C400 laptop that already had
Windows 2000 last night. Resized the NTFS partition using tools from the
SystemRescueCD disk and installed FC2 in a dual-boot setup. Windows still
boots as well as it ever did, if you can call that a good outcome. :-)

The bug apparently does not always bite.

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together (don't think so)

Posted May 29, 2004 10:59 UTC (Sat) by f3dr0 (guest, #21932) [Link]

I also have w2k on a compaq laptop and it boot correctly after the Fedora Core 2 installation. But if use a tool like PartitionMagic __after__ the installation, it immediately says that the geometry is a mess and I got problems trying to resize partitions.

Cheers!

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted May 26, 2004 20:11 UTC (Wed) by trutkin (guest, #3919) [Link]

Having seperate disks won't necessarily work. I use two drives, one for windows, one for fedora,
and I was still bitten by the bug.