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Windows 7 and fedora 17, fedora not showing up as boot option

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – 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? (HowTos)

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Submitted by sine on 11/15/2012

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