Need partitioning advice

Ok folks here's what I am thinkin of doin. I have installed Win7 Enterprise on a 320gig hdd and I also want to install Fedora and Phoenix on this same hdd.

I have set aside 2 x 50gig partitions for Fedora and Phoenix. Should I install Fedora or Phoenix first? I was thinkin Fedora first then Phoenix, only because I know *buntus usually see all the OS partitions in Grub.

So any advice would be appreciative.

~Froggy~

You are concerned with the Grub bootloader
If one or more of the distros use grub2 , then use a grub2 for the last install and use its bootloader, which will recognize most grub-legacy systems.
But even then some grub-legacy distros will not boot without editing the config file and adding ' chainloader +1 '
I had to do this to boot Mandrive , like this - -

menuentry "Mandriva 2010 (on /dev/sda8)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0.'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1b436177-cd01-4bfc-a138-2d87dac5b0f6
linux /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=1b436177-cd01-4bfc-a138-2d87dac5b0f6 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img
chainloader +1
}

This way the MBR will boot the partitiion providing also has the MBR written to its partition.

Well, I actually think that Phoenix Hardy is Grub legacy? Correct me if I'm wrong on that.

LinuXFroG wrote:Well, I actually think that Phoenix Hardy is Grub legacy? Correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Thats correct.

Ray

Ok, well that was a total failure...... Fedora decided to clean my clock so to speak. It decided to install on the whole drive.....

LinuXFroG wrote:Ok, well that was a total failure...... Fedora decided to clean my clock so to speak. It decided to install on the whole drive.....

I have a program, that works good for situations like yours; let me see if I can dig it up.

Ray

Thanx bro. I used gparted live to partition the drive originally. But Fedora I guess does not like to share a drive. LOL!

Didn't it ask you at the beginning in partitioning to select manual install? Then you select what partition you want it installed on.

I used the LiveCD and it does ask and I pointed it to the proper partition, but it took the whole drive anyways.

Hard drive racks are the answer, just put in the rack, load an os, take out rack, load another rack in, load a different os,.... repeat as desired...

I have 5 different racks for my new computer, and 7 racks for my old one... Works like a charm, and no more one os pulling the whole house of cards down with it, so to speak...

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Harvey

Sounds like an idea. But this frog is flat broke....

I know the feeling...

Just keep the idea in the back of your filing cabinet... when things get better, and a hard drive or two goes on sale, then try the rack system.

In the mean time, just be sure that you have ALL of your data backed up someplace else besides your hard drive that you are running multiple partitions with multiple os's...

Harvey

are you sure it used the entire drive or just over wrote the MBR with Fedora.

It took over the entire drive. I am sure about that, cus I loaded up Ubuntu livecd and that was showin as being installed on the entire drive.

That's everybody's nightmare.

Another OS that's good at pissin ya off is Zonbu.

With multiple booting one answer is to have a small grub partition. I can not lay my hands on the web page at present. I got it working until I had to repartition and I did not reset it up. Grub is one of the reasons I have mepis installed. Even the latest mepis uses legacy and mepis is easy to re-install if things go wrong. It has a small program for repairing grub and also su dolphin where you can easilly edit the grub menu.

Mepis has so far recognized all my installs.

I also have a boot floppy with grub setup on. I run it making the mepis partition root and run setup (hd0) and on rebooting I have my boot menu back. I do not have to re-install mepis, but I can boot into mepis to do any necessary editing.

The reason for this is I am installing or re installing distros often such as the phoenix versions and things go wrong.

David

A buddy of me pointed me to EasyBCD, but it looks complicated.

I though EasyBSD was very complicated also.
I do pretty much the same as Deffi except I use Klikit.

I'm gonna try this again. In the following order:

1. Install Windows 7

2. Install Fedora < This is where the issue began.

3. Install PhoenixOS Hardy

Hopefully it works right this time. Too bad I can't hide my Windows partition so Fedora can't see it. Have it think the drive smaller then it actually is.

I have windows on a separate hard drive of its own and sometimes I just unplug it when installing a Linux OS.

I had similar problems with "Scientific Linux" it wanted to be the only OS on the hard drive. Its history.

Maybe I am just lucky with multi-boots. Here is the layout I have been using since Lucid came out in April. I use Lucid for by steady bootloader which is on sda10 . I have installed about twenty distros since April. Just delete one and try another one in its slot. Generally takes about two hours to set up a ne test installation, and Lucid boots it.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6501752/gparted.jpeg

Well Stan you are DEFINITELY THE MAN! You may come to my home and set my system up anytime you wish. I am not THA guy and cannot seem to get'er done at any cost.