Fedora and Partition Magic

[Gustavo Seabra]

Scott wrote:

> Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>
>> Gerhard Magnus wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to set up a dual booting system with Windows XP and Fedora 3
>>> using Partition/Boot Magic 8. My system has two hard drives with
>>> Windows XP installed on drive 1. Following the Partion Magic
>>> instructions, I created a small FAT partition on drive 1 for the Boot
>>> Magic files (which can't be installed on a NTFS partition). I used
>>> Partition Magic to create Linux ext3 and swap partitions on drive 2. I
>>> then installed Fedora 3 on drive 2, apparently successfully since I got
>>> to the splash screen that said so and told me to reboot.
>>>
>>> When I installed Fedora 3 without GRUB, the reboot hung on the message
>>> that the system was preparing to boot Fedora 3.
>>>
>>> When I installed Fedora 3 with GRUB (and including Windows XP as an
>>> option on the GRUB menu) I was able to reboot into Fedora successfully
>>> and complete the installation process. But then the Windows XP boot
>>> hung.
>>>
>>> I used the Boot Magic rescue disc to boot back to Windows XP where I
>>> reactivated Boot Magic and added Fedora as an OS to the Boot Magic
>>> menu. Now I can boot into Windows XP but the Fedora boot fails.
>>>
>>> Any hints as to how to hack through this? Are there special problems
>>> with having the bootable Fedora partition on the second drive? I'm not
>>> committed to using Boot Magic but it's worked fine for me in the past.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help!
>>> Jerry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Why do you need Partition Magic? Fedora can do all the partitions 
>> during the installation process. I actually suggests a scheme that, 
>> as I learned too late, is pretty good. What we did and worked fine was:
>> First partition: WinXP
>> All the rest: done with the partition utility during the Fedora 
>> installation, and all worked fine.
>>
> PM is still good if you want more than two OS' (say Win XP, Win2k, FC3 
> or WinXP FC3, SuSE 9.2). Also you can use it's Boot Manager (Boot 
> Magic) vs using GRUB.
>
> But in response to how you did it on yours, do you have Fedora 
> partitions on a separate drive or on the same drive (as windows)?
>
> Scott
>
Same drive. It was olnly one HD.

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