I was an Ubuntu fan for long since but It’s not in my nature to settle on anything. So for few days I was searching for a good mainstream alternative of Ubuntu. I’ve found Fedora,Suse,Sabayon,Puppy,DSL,PCLOS,Few BSDs,Solaris etc. Among them I’ve only been successful to connect net in Fedora. So last week I decided to make a permanent switch from Ubuntu to Fedora. Then I installed Fedora 11 Leonidas with GNOME environment. I choose “replace existing linux partition” on the partition editor so that I can avoid hassle. But something went wrong!!! (I did try to set up a custom partition and indicate my ubuntu drives and replace the Ubuntu “/” with Fedora “/”. The output is same)
The installation was a charm. Problem which occurs is that I can’t boot into my windows after installing Fedora. There is indeed an option called “Others” but clicking on it does nothing except hanging the entire system up. After doing a lot of research I’ve figure the how to. I’m sharing it with you. Same process should be followed on Suse.
1)Boot into Fedora.
2)Open up Terminal. Acquire root privilege followed by the command “fdisk -l”
3)The output should be something like this:
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0×5ea4f703
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5379 43206786 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5380 7167 14362110 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 * 7168 9729 20579265 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 5380 7143 14169298+ 83 Linux
/de
v/sda6 7144 7167 192748+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Look at the * marked partition. It’s my windows partition (C:\). We have to edit the grub file now.
4)Become root and use your favorite text editor to open up the grub.conf file located in “/boot/grub”. Use the following command to do that:
“gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf”
A file will be opened. Add the following lines at the end of the file:
title Microsoft Windows XP
root (hd0,2)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
Title is what you will see as your windows partition in The boot menu. The second line is specially important. (hd0,2) your windows partition is in your primary hard drive (Linux starts counting with 0) and 2 means it’s on sda3 (sda3 was the drive with the * sign).
5)save the file and reboot your computer. See whether works or not. It should work.















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