Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

Matthew Saltzman: > > > Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent > > > vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) > > > installations from booting. Tim: > > Hmm, would they prevent their own system from booting if it had (yet > > another) security flaw? > >

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

Tim via users wrote: >> Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent >> vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) >> installations from booting. >Hmm, would they prevent their own system from booting if it had (yet >another) security flaw? > >Perhaps they sho

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

On Fri, 2024-08-30 at 12:53 +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent > vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) > installations from booting. Hmm, would they prevent their own system from booting if it had (yet another) se

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

> On 30 Aug 2024, at 13:53, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent > vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) > installations from booting. > > https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/08/windows-update-breaking-linux-dualboot-fi

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/08/2018 11:06 PM, peterlesterh...@telfort.nl wrote: So If I reinstall the way you suggest, and choose the HDD-disk as the boot drive, can I still go on with " custom" installation an put / on the SSD? And shall I still have the advantage of a fast boot? No, do the partitions the same wa

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

I assume you've verified that the SSD has a GPT partition table. Yes, I did. Honestly, the easiest way to find out is start over, go to custom partitioning, clock on the blue link to create partitions automatically, and see what it chooses for /boot/efi. I did this. I chose the SSD-disk, which cont

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/08/2018 07:14 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 11:05 PM Samuel Sieb > > wrote: >> It's not about where / or /boot are. It's about where it expects the >> system to boot from. It's the sa

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/08/2018 07:14 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 11:05 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote: It's not about where / or /boot are.  It's about where it expects the system to boot from.  It's the same as where to put GRUB on a non-UEFI system. That's even mor

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 11:05 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/07/2018 10:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > That's such a goofy bug. It'd be fine to warn the user that /boot/efi > > is somewhere other than either /boot or / - just let them know the > > system won't boot if a device containing any of /bo

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/07/2018 10:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: That's such a goofy bug. It'd be fine to warn the user that /boot/efi is somewhere other than either /boot or / - just let them know the system won't boot if a device containing any of /boot/efi /boot or / are missing (which should be obvious but I'll

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/07/2018 03:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >> On 06/05/2018 09:28 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: >>> >>> I select the (Windows) /boot/efi partition in Anaconda installation >>> screen and fill in "/boot/efi" in de mount-point window in the righ

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/07/2018 03:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/05/2018 09:28 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: I select the (Windows) /boot/efi partition in Anaconda installation screen and fill in "/boot/efi" in de mount-point window in the right side of the screen. At first this seems to work, because this appea

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

I'm suspicious the installer wants /boot/efi on the same drive as / And if so it's a bug, but I can't remember if this ever got fixed yet. Also, the only thing that cares about two EFI System partitions, is there Windows installer. And only if there are two on one drive. One each on two drives is

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/05/2018 09:28 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: I select the (Windows) /boot/efi partition in Anaconda installation screen and fill in "/boot/efi" in de mount-point window in the right side of the screen. At first this seems to work, because this appears under "New Fedora 28 installation" (left

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/03/2018 10:21 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: ... Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. ...

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/04/2018 02:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 16:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/03/2018 04:37 PM, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. Only if you mount it

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

Tim: >> Only if you mount it with the right options. >> If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have >> a /tmp directory, it's going to be normal filesystem. Samuel Sieb: > Ok, I didn't think I needed to spell it out. By default, Fedora > configures /tmp as a tmpfs filesys

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 16:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/03/2018 04:37 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > > > Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. > > > > Only if you mount it with the right options. > > > > If

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/03/2018 04:37 PM, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. Only if you mount it with the right options. If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have a /tmp direct

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. Only if you mount it with the right options. If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have a /tmp directory, it's going to be normal filesystem. -- [

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/03/2018 10:21 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: And you won't mount at /mnt/sda2, you'll mount at /home, /usr /tmp in order to do what you want. You'll have to create those directories under your new partition, and make sure they have the correct parameters (the same as /usr and /home have under

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On Sun, 3 Jun 2018 at 14:22, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > > And you won't mount at /mnt/sda2, you'll mount at /home, /usr /tmp in > > order to do what you want. You'll have to create those directories > > under your new partition, and make sure they have the correct > > parameters (the same as /usr

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

And you won't mount at /mnt/sda2, you'll mount at /home, /usr /tmp in order to do what you want. You'll have to create those directories under your new partition, and make sure they have the correct parameters (the same as /usr and /home have under /). Thank you, and others, for replying. I lear

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/03/2018 02:39 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 3 June 2018 at 07:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: [..] /home is fine to go on the HDD, it's not going to slow things down. Actually it would make a rather noticeable difference, I didn't measure exactly how much, in some apps loading times, e.g.: - Firef

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 11:39 +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 3 June 2018 at 07:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: > [..] > > > /home is fine to go on the HDD, it's not going to slow things down. > > > > Actually it would make a rather noticeable difference, I didn't > measure exactly how much, in some apps l

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 3 June 2018 at 07:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: [..] > /home is fine to go on the HDD, it's not going to slow things down. > Actually it would make a rather noticeable difference, I didn't measure exactly how much, in some apps loading times, e.g.: - Firefox will read/load (and write) the user's pro

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 06/02/2018 11:03 AM, peterlesterh...@telfort.nl wrote: So far so good. I can boot into Windows as well as Fedora. Now I want to have /home, /usr/ and/ /tmp on the HDD drive, which I intend to use as data-drive. I created a mountpoint for the new partition of the HDD drive (sudo mkdir /mnt/sd

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On 2 June 2018 at 20:03, peterlesterh...@telfort.nl wrote: > Hi, > > I purchased an Asus laptop with 2 hard drives (SSD 256 GB and HDD 1 TB). > Windows10 was preinstalled on the SSD and the HDD drive is used for data. > > I wanted to install fedora alongside Windows. > So I shrinked the partition

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

On Sat, 2 Jun 2018 20:03:59 +0200 (CEST) "peterlesterh...@telfort.nl" wrote: > Hi, > I purchased an Asus laptop with 2 hard drives (SSD 256 GB and HDD 1 > TB). Windows10 was preinstalled on the SSD and the HDD drive is used > for data. I wanted to install fedora alongside Windows. > So I shrinke

Re: Dual boot

> Then you must have formatted the EFI partition during the install. You > could check the log files in /var/log/anaconda/ to verify that. There have > been several people with the same issue on ask.fedoraproject.org. The > solution seems to be to get the install/repair iso file from the Microsof

Re: Dual boot

On 17 October 2016 at 20:52, Celso Viana wrote: >> Maybe the installer created a separate EFI system partition? >> >> Could you post the link that this command will show, as root: >> sudo parted -l | fpaste >> >> And just to clarify, the "EFI boot menu" is the menu you invoke from >> the firmware

Re: Dual boot

> Maybe the installer created a separate EFI system partition? > > Could you post the link that this command will show, as root: > sudo parted -l | fpaste > > And just to clarify, the "EFI boot menu" is the menu you invoke from > the firmware at early boot (typically by pressing an F* button on the

Re: Dual boot

On 14 October 2016 at 21:13, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 10/14/2016 11:38 AM, Celso Viana wrote: >>> >>> Does the EFI boot menu show an option for Windows? Look in /boot/efi/EFI >>> and see if there is a Microsoft directory there. >> >> >> There is no Windows menu entry. >> >> There is no Microsoft d

Re: Dual boot

On 10/14/2016 03:55 PM, Doug wrote: to run a Windows repair disk and re-establish the Windows boot. I don't know then how you'd get the dual boot back, altho Windows _claims_ you can dual boot with Windows. UEFI makes dual-boot much easier, because neither OS needs to mess around with the boot

Re: Dual boot

On 10/14/2016 02:38 PM, Celso Viana wrote: Does the EFI boot menu show an option for Windows? Look in /boot/efi/EFI and see if there is a Microsoft directory there. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Dual boot

On 10/14/2016 11:38 AM, Celso Viana wrote: Does the EFI boot menu show an option for Windows? Look in /boot/efi/EFI and see if there is a Microsoft directory there. There is no Windows menu entry. There is no Microsoft directory. Then you must have formatted the EFI partition during the inst

Re: Dual boot

> Does the EFI boot menu show an option for Windows? Look in /boot/efi/EFI > and see if there is a Microsoft directory there. > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Dual boot

On 10/14/2016 07:23 AM, Celso Viana wrote: I had a setup with "Windows 10" and "Fedora 23" dual boot (UEFI). I installed the "Fedora 24" on this machine and the installer failed to detect the most "Windows 10". Does anyone know how to reconfigure / reinstall GRUB to Windows appears in the boot me

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade. [success]

On 13/07/16 18:47, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin I thought I would post my experience. I started with the fear that it was going to create many headaches. I was wrong.

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

On 14/07/16 19:49, Ger van Dijck wrote: Op Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:47:13 +0200 schreef Robin Laing : I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- Just do the upgrade to Windows 10 and reinstall new Fedo

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

Op Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:47:13 +0200 schreef Robin Laing : I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- Just do the upgrade to Windows 10 and reinstall new Fedora 24 : When upgrading to Windows 10

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

On 13/07/16 20:38, Doug wrote: On 07/13/2016 07:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- I did this twice. In both cases I had a dual-boot Windows plus Linux / and /home a

Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.

On 07/13/2016 07:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- I did this twice. In both cases I had a dual-boot Windows plus Linux / and /home and swap. In one case it worked

Re: Dual boot

On 06/04/2016 03:23 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: >> Op Sun, 29 May 2016 04:53:26 +0200 schreef Celso Viana >> : >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> You know if you can dual boot with GPT and BIOS disks on the same machine? >>> >>> /dev/sdb GPT -> Windows 10 >>

Re: Dual boot

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: > Op Sun, 29 May 2016 04:53:26 +0200 schreef Celso Viana > : > >> Hi all, >> >> You know if you can dual boot with GPT and BIOS disks on the same machine? >> >> /dev/sdb GPT -> Windows 10 >> /dev/sda BIOS -> Fedora 23 x64 >> >> The machine only

Re: Dual boot

Op Sun, 29 May 2016 04:53:26 +0200 schreef Celso Viana : Hi all, You know if you can dual boot with GPT and BIOS disks on the same machine? /dev/sdb GPT -> Windows 10 /dev/sda BIOS -> Fedora 23 x64 The machine only starts with Windows; not appear the boot menu Thanks! Hi Celso ,

Re: Dual boot

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 8:53 PM, Celso Viana wrote: > Hi all, > > You know if you can dual boot with GPT and BIOS disks on the same machine? > > /dev/sdb GPT -> Windows 10 > /dev/sda BIOS -> Fedora 23 x64 > > The machine only starts with Windows; not appear the boot menu GPT is to MBR as UEFI is

Re: Dual boot

On 05/28/2016 07:53 PM, Celso Viana wrote: You know if you can dual boot with GPT and BIOS disks on the same machine? /dev/sdb GPT -> Windows 10 /dev/sda BIOS -> Fedora 23 x64 The machine only starts with Windows; not appear the boot menu You will have to get into the UEFI BIOS setup and make

Re: Dual boot multiple fedora verions

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:12:51 +0100, poma wrote: > On 23.11.2014 22:05, poma wrote: >> On 23.11.2014 21:57, poma wrote: >>> On 23.11.2014 21:47, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, poma wrote: > Sure, > shared single /boot with a extlinux/extlinux.conf

Re: Dual boot multiple fedora verions

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:52:51 + (UTC) Andy Campbell wrote: > Is there an elegant way to install two versions of Fedora at the same > time ? I always use a "stand alone" grub2 that boots from the MBR and has "configfile" entries to boot the different fedora versions I have installed in separat

Re: Dual boot multiple fedora verions

On 23.11.2014 22:05, poma wrote: > On 23.11.2014 21:57, poma wrote: >> On 23.11.2014 21:47, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, poma wrote: >>> Sure, shared single /boot with a extlinux/extlinux.conf >>> >>> That's a good idea also. Single /boot means one grub.cfg or

Re: Dual boot multiple fedora verions

On 23.11.2014 21:57, poma wrote: > On 23.11.2014 21:47, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, poma wrote: >> >>> Sure, >>> shared single /boot with a extlinux/extlinux.conf >> >> That's a good idea also. Single /boot means one grub.cfg or >> extlinux.conf. And the kernels each ha

Re: Dual boot multiple fedora verions

On 23.11.2014 21:47, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, poma wrote: > >> Sure, >> shared single /boot with a extlinux/extlinux.conf > > That's a good idea also. Single /boot means one grub.cfg or > extlinux.conf. And the kernels each have distinct naming conventions > between

Re: Dual boot multiple fedora verions

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, poma wrote: > Sure, > shared single /boot with a extlinux/extlinux.conf That's a good idea also. Single /boot means one grub.cfg or extlinux.conf. And the kernels each have distinct naming conventions between distro versions so no conflicts there. Grubby will upd

Re: Dual boot multiple fedora verions

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Andy Campbell wrote: > Is there an elegant way to install two versions of Fedora at the same > time ? Not automatically. > p1 boot1 ( F19) > p2 boot2 ( F20) What you end up with in this case, is broken F19 right now because in the F20 install environment, t

Re: Dual boot multiple fedora verions

On 23.11.2014 19:52, Andy Campbell wrote: > Is there an elegant way to install two versions of Fedora at the same > time ? > > I like to keep the existing version running, while I test/setup new > version, then swap when I'm happy everything is running ok. Previously > I've done with a boot lo

Re: Dual Boot Windows 8.1 Professional Fedora 20

On May 17, 2014, at 8:50 AM, Ger van Dijck wrote: > There seem to be lots of problems with dual boot : I solved the problem as > follows. > > On a Dell inspiron laptop I did change the bootmode. > > UEFI with Legacy Oprom > Secure boot Off > Bootlist option UEFI > > Then I first installed Wi

Re: Dual Boot Problems

Well, the UEFI add more options to the sometimes confusing and in itself, wide variety of options we had with BIOS, and many computers yet remain the old BIOS as your new Dell. From what I've read about dual boot where can coexist peacefully windows and linux on the same hard disk as before, in the

Re: Dual Boot System

Does any one have experience with a common /boot for a dual OS system? On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Robin Laing wrote: > On 2014-04-17 01:31, Javier Perez wrote: > >> Hi Arthur >> That is exactly the scenario that I want to avoid by having separate /home >> and soft-linking the Data partiti

Re: Dual Boot System

On 2014-04-17 01:31, Javier Perez wrote: Hi Arthur That is exactly the scenario that I want to avoid by having separate /home and soft-linking the Data partition. I wonder should I set /var on the HDD to save wear and tear on the SSD? JP On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Arthur Dent wrote:

Re: Dual Boot System

Hi Arthur That is exactly the scenario that I want to avoid by having separate /home and soft-linking the Data partition. I wonder should I set /var on the HDD to save wear and tear on the SSD? JP On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 00:43 -0500, Javier P

Re: Dual Boot System

On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 00:43 -0500, Javier Perez wrote: > My Idea is to have sda=SSD, sdb=HDD > > > /dev/sda1 = /boot, about 1G > > /dev/sda2 = / Ubuntu 50G aprox > > /dev/sda3 = / Fedora 50G aprox > > /dev/sda4 = swap * (I know i know, let's forget about extended/logical > for the moment)

Re: Dual Boot System

On 4/16/2014 10:46 PM, Javier Perez wrote: It is not a bad idea per se. The thing is that the reason I installed Ubuntu is because at some time (I think it was Fedora 16 or 17, don't remember now) Fedora could not set the right resolution for my display, 1920x1080, but Ubuntu indeed could do i

Re: Dual Boot System

Hi again: Well your scheme is not bad. 50 GB for each OS is a lot, even if you don't store a lot of information in logs for run a server or something like that. I never use to install the \boot in a separate partition. I install the root (\) of each one inside it's own partition and the GRUB do th

Re: Dual Boot System

It is not a bad idea per se. The thing is that the reason I installed Ubuntu is because at some time (I think it was Fedora 16 or 17, don't remember now) Fedora could not set the right resolution for my display, 1920x1080, but Ubuntu indeed could do it without problem. Virtualizing it would defeat

Re: Dual Boot System

My Idea is to have sda=SSD, sdb=HDD /dev/sda1 = /boot, about 1G /dev/sda2 = / Ubuntu 50G aprox /dev/sda3 = / Fedora 50G aprox /dev/sda4 = swap * (I know i know, let's forget about extended/logical for the moment) /dev/sdb1= /MyData (to be available under both OS Then for both Ubuntu and Fedo

Re: Dual Boot System

On 4/16/2014 8:49 PM, Javier Perez wrote: Hi I need some advice here regarding partitioning my home system. My home system is a triple boot system: Windows 2K, Fedora 20 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I have three disks, one devoted to each operating system. The first disk has two partitions, one for th

Re: Dual Boot System

Hello: Well I have few experience with dual systems, and I don't understand your idea. You can have a SSD Hard Disk wherein you install one or more OS. You don't need to have a lot of physical hard disk for that. In fact in only one you can get two OS doing the right partions in a common hard disk

Re: dual boot test

On 12/27/2013 5:31 PM, bruce wrote: At the basic level, if I could somehow run a cmd and somehow invoke a "os" install for the existing system, that would be great. IE, if I had an "image" that could be downloaded to get a complete refresh/reinstall that's what I'm looking for. So, starting from

Re: dual boot test

Chris. At the basic level, if I could somehow run a cmd and somehow invoke a "os" install for the existing system, that would be great. IE, if I had an "image" that could be downloaded to get a complete refresh/reinstall that's what I'm looking for. So, starting from the start, how can I get ther

Re: dual boot test

On Dec 27, 2013, at 5:49 PM, bruce wrote: > Pete. > > The 1st OS will be the os that gets run, it's the "master".. However > if I detect that it's hacked, I want to be able to reinstall the OS. What if the drive dies? What method are you going to use to get back up and running as soon as poss

Re: dual boot test

On Dec 27, 2013 5:49 PM, "bruce" wrote: > > Pete. > > The 1st OS will be the os that gets run, it's the "master".. However > if I detect that it's hacked, I want to be able to reinstall the OS. > > Noramlly, you'd do that with a cd, and do it manually, but if you > don't have access to the box, th

Re: dual boot test

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 19:49:42 -0500 bruce wrote: > My approach is to have a 2nd minimal system/OS that has the only > function to invoke a complete/fresh netinstall to restore/refresh the > OS on the 1st system. How exactly (step by step, please) do you intend to invoke the netinstall from the ins

Re: dual boot test

Hi again Chris! I owe you OJ/Beer/Pizza! With regards to creating the 3 partitions, umm.. using the Installation GUI, where does that happen? I can't seem to find it on the Create Custom Layout Page. Am I looking at the wrong/right place? thanks On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Chris Murphy w

Re: dual boot test

On Dec 27, 2013, at 5:44 PM, bruce wrote: > Chris.. > > > I already gave you the proper grub.conf 2nd entry. That's what you got > wrong and why it won't boot. It's pointing to the wrong root which is > what I said from the beginning. > <<< > > Right, but I'm not sure what I need to corre

Re: dual boot test

Pete. The 1st OS will be the os that gets run, it's the "master".. However if I detect that it's hacked, I want to be able to reinstall the OS. Noramlly, you'd do that with a cd, and do it manually, but if you don't have access to the box, then what? My approach is to have a 2nd minimal system/O

Re: dual boot test

Chris.. I already gave you the proper grub.conf 2nd entry. That's what you got wrong and why it won't boot. It's pointing to the wrong root which is what I said from the beginning. <<< Right, but I'm not sure what I need to correct in the Install GUI for the 2nd OS Install process in order t

Re: dual boot test

On Dec 27, 2013 4:15 PM, "bruce" wrote: > > Hi Chris. > > Thanks fo.r the reply > . > The principle reason for doing/testing dual boot is to have the > ability to be able to do a remote reinstall for a fresh OS on a remote > box. If you know of a way to accomplish that, I'm more than willing to >

Re: dual boot test

On Dec 27, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2013, at 4:40 PM, bruce wrote: > >> Hi Chris. >> >> Thanks fo.r the reply >> . >> The principle reason for doing/testing dual boot is to have the >> ability to be able to do a remote reinstall for a fresh OS on a remote >> box.

Re: dual boot test

On Dec 27, 2013, at 4:40 PM, bruce wrote: > Hi Chris. > > Thanks fo.r the reply > . > The principle reason for doing/testing dual boot is to have the > ability to be able to do a remote reinstall for a fresh OS on a remote > box. If you know of a way to accomplish that, I'm more than willing to

Re: dual boot test

On 12/27/2013 3:15 PM, bruce wrote: The principle reason for doing/testing dual boot is to have the ability to be able to do a remote reinstall for a fresh OS on a remote box. If you know of a way to accomplish that, I'm more than willing to hear it!! Everything I've seen regarding doing reinst

Re: dual boot test

Hi Chris. Thanks fo.r the reply . The principle reason for doing/testing dual boot is to have the ability to be able to do a remote reinstall for a fresh OS on a remote box. If you know of a way to accomplish that, I'm more than willing to hear it!! Everything I've seen regarding doing reinstall

Re: dual boot test

Hi Chris. Thanks fo.r the reply . The principle reason for doing/testing dual boot is to have the ability to be able to do a remote reinstall for a fresh OS on a remote box. If you know of a way to accomplish that, I'm more than willing to hear it!! Everything I've seen regarding doing reinstall

Re: dual boot test

Do over, missing new line: hidemenu title Centos (2.6.32-431.e16.x86_64) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux-2.6.32-431.e16.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_swap SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd_LVM_LV=VolGroup/lv_root KEYBOARDTYPE=

Re: dual boot test

On Dec 27, 2013, at 1:48 PM, bruce wrote: > Hi Chris, > > For my tests right now, I'm simply trying to get dual Centos up/running, OK but why do it the hard way, instead of putting one of them in a VM? Or better, Fedora 20, and put two CentOS and another Fedora each in their own VM? In that

Re: dual boot test

Hi Chris, For my tests right now, I'm simply trying to get dual Centos up/running, Based on what you've said, there are errors in what I'm trying to accomplish. You wouldn't have a few mins to walk me through this would you. I'm convinced that this is doable, and that whatever mistakes I've made

Re: dual boot test

On Dec 27, 2013, at 12:34 PM, bruce wrote: > Hi - I know I should probably post to centos, but I'm testing this > with centos, and then with fedora. CentOS 6 uses grub legacy. Fedora uses grub2. They are completely different, FYI. > set the boot to be on sda1 - as 500M In grub legacy that's

Re: dual boot test

update:: forgot to list the Display/Device page from the GUI/Install OS process LVM Volume Groups VolGroup 237972 lv2_apps 5000 /apps2 lv2_backup 5000 /backup2 lv2_home5000 /home2 lv2_root 1 / lv_apps 1 /apps lv_backup 1 /backup lv_home 1 /

Re: dual boot

On Dec 22, 2013 3:34 PM, "bruce" wrote: > > hi guys. > > question regarding how to remotely auto boot/install into a system.. > > normal operation: > -1 drive/1 OS > machine gets turned on, boots/starts the OS > > but if I want to do a remote/auto/programtic install of a new OS, on > top of the cu

Re: dual boot

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013, bruce wrote: question regarding how to remotely auto boot/install into a system.. normal operation: -1 drive/1 OS machine gets turned on, boots/starts the OS but if I want to do a remote/auto/programtic install of a new OS, on top of the current OS, how the heck can this b

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Andre Costa wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk: >> >> * 1M BIOS boot partition >> * 500M Linux boot partition >> * 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19) >> * 200G unused space >> >> I would like to install W

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

Andre Costa wrote: Hi, I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk: * 1M BIOS boot partition * 500M Linux boot partition * 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19) * 200G unused space I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if this will mess up with my curr

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk: > 1M BIOS boot partition > 500M Linux boot partition > 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19) > 200G unused space Wait a minute, I need to back this train up a whole lot. You have a BIOS Boo

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On 11/22/2013 01:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: That's untrue. syslinux/extlinux both use jump code in LBA 0 that likewise jumps to the start LBA for the partition with the active bit set. There's also an old freebsd boot manager that let's the user choose which partition to boot from, in effect a

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On Nov 22, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/22/2013 12:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Because you're using BIOS Boot, it's possible grub-install put core.img >> (formerly stage2) right at the start of that partition, in which case by >> merely changing the boot flag (the active bit), you

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On 11/22/2013 12:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Because you're using BIOS Boot, it's possible grub-install put core.img (formerly stage2) right at the start of that partition, in which case by merely changing the boot flag (the active bit), you could choose which OS is loaded. But it's not guaranteed

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:53 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > > Another (offtopic) question: anyone knows if Windows 8 can be installed so > far on the disk? (XP for example can't handle large disks) I would really > hate to have to repartition because of Windows... I will only use it > eventually for ga

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if > this will mess up with my current boot manager? Can Windows 8 coexist with > GRUB? When I wanted to add Linux to my Windows 8 system and maintain a dual-boot, the on

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:19 AM, Tim wrote: > Windows installations have always messed with bootloaders to set things > up for itself, and nothing else. To be fair, Linux installations eat their own as well. > > The only time I've seen Windows installations acknowledge prior installs > and give yo

Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Andre Costa wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk: > 1M BIOS boot partition > 500M Linux boot partition > 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19) > 200G unused space > I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if >

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