Help appreciated for a Fedora newbie.
I bought a windows 8 box, so I could install Fedora 18. I did not want to risk my main PC.
I first installed Fedora on a Virtual machine under Win 8, no problem, but it runs slowly. Then I tried to install Fedora as a dual boot. It failed to start from the DVD.
I then discovered you have to disable the secure boot feature from the boot menu.
So I have windows 7 installed as my main OS, I wanted to mess around with fedora so I got the ISO installed it to cd everything went fine. In windows before install i partitioned 100gb of free space, when installing fedora I chose use free space, it did but now I cant seem to figure out how to get it to boot, it always just goes straight to windows. any tips?
hi, i got the 64 bit version of fedora 12 on a live-usb but it wont boot my hp elitebook 6930p (grub wont load; the pc goes directly to win-xp).
fedora 11 live-usb boots up fine on it.
i tested the fedora-12 usb on an older acer extensa 4620z and it boots fine.
did they do something different with the boot loader/ grub that makes it incompatible on some pc's ?
Hi guys/gals,
I have installed ubuntu before on my laptop (hp envy m6) before no problem. I currently have a CLEAN (i think) install of windows 8 (meh) on it. I am trying to now keep my Windows 8 install on the internal drive, and USB boot off of a 500GB toshiba external USB drive. I have the Fedora 18 disk in the DVD drive.
I had Fedora 15 on a computer, dual booted with Windows 7. I did a fresh install of Fedora 17, but in the process I seem to have wiped out its capability to boot Windows 7, which I'm pretty sure is still on the disk.
My plan is to install grub on the /boot partition of the new Fedora 17 and then fix the MBR to boot Windows and use Easy BCD under Windows to dual boot.
Hi
I saw posts on getting Fedora installed and I started on the steps, however I wanted to know if we still need rEFIt to do dual boots? Fedora 17 onward was supposed to handle booting on EFI systems like the intel 64 bit mac's...
I might get beaten by this line, but I find Mac's to be very delicate in terms of software handling...
Hi
I have a laptop with 2 hard drives. 60 GB each
I have winXP in harddisk 1
I want to install fedora on harddisk 2
I go through the installation of fedora 12 from DVD. but at the end when system reboots I do not get the dual boot menu. and laptop boots directly to windows.
Hi all I am using fedora 11 from last one or + year. Just few days back I have try to install fedora 13 on new hdd I have brought. my have install fedora 13 on fresh drive and while installation i gave hdd of 11 to mount into fedora 13. but something went wrong. now i can not boot fedora 11 with single drive. the boot process starts normally and suddenly gives following errors.
I'm trying to dual-boot Fedora 17 and Windows XP. I installed Fedora from the live-cd with no problem onto a second hard drive, and put GRUB2 on the first drive so it's the boot loader.
When I try to boot Fedora I get a "Cannot open file font True" message and it stops booting. I looked around and found that the error should only delay the booting, and found how to fix it.
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