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Fedora 18 not working on an HP Dv7
I've recently installed Fedora 18 on my brand new HP Dv7 that comes with Windows 8 and secure boot. Before install Fedora I disabled secure boot in the BIOS. I've installed Fedora 18 and all is ...
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Chroot in to reinstall Grub2 reinstall, mnt/ is empty
I have a common problem: I installed Fedora 18 on my PC that has Windows on it. When I start the PC I don't get asked which system I want to boot, Windows is chosen always.
So I found out that I ...
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How to boot on Fedora 18 (Grub2)
I have Fedora 18 and Windows 7 on my laptop.
I had grub2 bootloader and the default is been set to windows 7.
After I turn on my laptop it just automatically boots into windows 7.
Now I want to set ...
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Fedora 17 Grub not finding Windows 8
I had Windows 8 installed, shrunk it and installed Fedora 17 using the free space. It now only boots into Fedora.
I have these two EFI partitions:
/dev/sda2
/EFI
/Boot/bootx64.efi
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How to set the default entry in grub on Fedora 18?
I am unable to set Windows 8 as the default entry in grub 2 on Fedora 18.
I have tried the following, but nothing happens.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2
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Re-installing Windows 7 on a dual boot system with Fedora
At present I have a dual boot system with Windows 7 and Fedora 14. I want to re-install windows 7 but most probably it will replace Fedora's boot loader. I have a lot of things set up on Fedora. I ...
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Missing Fedora in grub after installing Ubuntu
I had Fedora 17 in a primary partition. Yesterday I installed Ubuntu in an extended partition, and I can't see Fedora in grub, so I tried update-grub2 but it doesn't recognise Fedora being present, ...
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Setting grub loader as default loader
I have Windows 7 on my system, and recently I have installed Fedora 16 in a different partition. To have it dual boot, I have used EasyBCD 2.1.2 and I made an entry for Fedora. When I boot my system, ...
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How to start a windows partition from the Grub command line?
I have Windows 7 installed on my system. After I installed Windows 7, I installed Fedora on a separate partition so that I could dual boot.
I removed Fedora by deleting the partition it was installed ...
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Dual boot Fedora 16 with OS X refit
Having trouble with installing Fedora 16 on my Macbook Pro. While the installation itself completes without and issues, the bootloader doesn't install correctly.
I have rEFIt, which I already have ...
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Avoid issues with Fedora and Windows by installing on separate hard drives?
I just built my first Linux machine (Fedora distribution) and love it. For my professional work, having access to Windows would help tremendously, and I'd like to be install Windows and have a choice ...
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Can't dualboot Fedora
I have Windows XP installed on partition C, and then I installed Fedora on ext3 partition.
Now at computer startup I should see two options to select from; either launch XP or Fedora. However, my ...
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GRUB error Fedora 15 when Dual Booting on MacBook Pro
I am having trouble getting Fedora 15 running on my MacBook Pro. I had Fedora 15 installed before on this MBP before, so I know it works. I basically followed the good old instructions of
Create a ...
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How should I install Fedora or any other Linux in USB hard disk and configure booting?
I want to install Fedora or any other Linux in USB hard disk. I have Windows XP installed in internal HDD.
When USB HDD is attached to my PC, it
should ask me to boot from Win XP or
Linux.
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How to partition my hard-drive to be used for dual OS?
I'm using HP G42 laptop with 320GB hard-drive and 4 GB memory. I'm pretty sure that, it can be used for dual OS(Windows 7 & fedora) Currently, I'm using only Windows 7, but, I need to install ...
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Selecting the right GRUB
I've just installed Backtrack on my harddrive (got one), i also got Fedora and Windows 7. However, now i get the Backtrack-GRUB instead of my Fedora GRUB. How do i change that? I got a sda5 containing ...
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Dual-boot OS X and Fedora
I'm trying to install Fedora (dual-boot) on a brand-new MacBook Pro. The live/installer CD runs flawlessly on the machine, which was a nice surprise. But after the install is completed, I cannot ...
