Hi all,
I am trying to dual boot XP and fedora but having a few problems, I will explain what I have tried so far.
In the first instance the hard drive was completely NTFS no partitions and an XP OS. I then used Partition magic to split the 30G hdd down the middle. I then installed fedora on the empty partition. Ok simple and that worked just fine, I booted into fedora and that was fine, I booted into XP and that was fine. I shut down the Laptop and felt quite smug. When I came back to the laptop to have a look around fedora it would not boot. Hmm strange I thought, I will try XP but that was much the same, just locked up. I bet its because it was NTFS. So I wipe the lot and put XP in fat partition and fedora in ext3. now with fingers crossed I try again. It boots into both OS fine then straight away I try to go back into fedora but it locks. I restart and try XP and the same happens here. Blast, never believed in finger crossing anyway. I do the same again but use ext2. Blast![[hairpull]](/data/assets/smilies/hairpull.gif "[hairpull] [hairpull]")
, just same, right its 2am ![[bugeyed]](/data/assets/smilies/bugeyed.gif "[bugeyed] [bugeyed]")
I going to bed and sort this tomorrow.
The next day…![[idea]](/data/assets/smilies/idea.gif "[idea] [idea]")
right there must be a bug in this fedora so this time I will reinstall and then update it before closing down. You guessed it fedora was up to date and yes the same happed. ![[hairpull3]](/data/assets/smilies/hairpull3.gif "[hairpull3] [hairpull3]")
My intention was to have fedora on one partition XP in a second and a third for having a play with slackware (have a book) as this seemed to be a good way to learn lots of Linuxy stuff.
Any suggestions about what I can do about this other than make the laptop complete fedora
I am trying to dual boot XP and fedora but having a few problems, I will explain what I have tried so far.
In the first instance the hard drive was completely NTFS no partitions and an XP OS. I then used Partition magic to split the 30G hdd down the middle. I then installed fedora on the empty partition. Ok simple and that worked just fine, I booted into fedora and that was fine, I booted into XP and that was fine. I shut down the Laptop and felt quite smug. When I came back to the laptop to have a look around fedora it would not boot. Hmm strange I thought, I will try XP but that was much the same, just locked up. I bet its because it was NTFS. So I wipe the lot and put XP in fat partition and fedora in ext3. now with fingers crossed I try again. It boots into both OS fine then straight away I try to go back into fedora but it locks. I restart and try XP and the same happens here. Blast, never believed in finger crossing anyway. I do the same again but use ext2. Blast
, just same, right its 2am I going to bed and sort this tomorrow. The next day…
right there must be a bug in this fedora so this time I will reinstall and then update it before closing down. You guessed it fedora was up to date and yes the same happed. My intention was to have fedora on one partition XP in a second and a third for having a play with slackware (have a book) as this seemed to be a good way to learn lots of Linuxy stuff.
Any suggestions about what I can do about this other than make the laptop complete fedora