FC duel boot

[siplus]

i was looking at /. and found this: http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/23/1 ... 10&tid=187

some people said they had problems duel booting, others said they didn't. i'll be installing FC2 over my RH9 partition in a few days, and i'm wondering if i'll have that kind of problem since i also have a win2k install.

someone mentioned they didn't have a problem when they did a manuel partition, which i always do. could this problem only be for the automatic partition program/whatever FC comes with?

[dishawjp]

Hi Siplus,

Yeah, I had a bit of an issue with dual booting when I installed FC2 yesterday. I'm currently booting FC1 and FC2. I had to edit my /etc/grub.conf to get it to allow me to reboot to FC1. I've heard of others with this problem, though it's easily fixed. You may want to save a copy your current /etc/grub.conf to floppy so that you can just copy the appropriate lines to the new one. I was able to just mount my other hard drive from FC2 and do it that way, but if you're dual booting Windows, you won't have that option.

HTH,

Jim Dishaw

[Griffin518]

I've read all the bugzilla reports about this, but it's odd... I've never had an issue with it at all. I've installed several dual-boot FC2 installations, and haven't seen anything like this.

One odd thing I DID notice is that booting into kde (run level 5), on my desktop machine, will get me into kde nicely. When I boot on run level 3, and start kde by hand, it kills my dvi output (I use dvi to an LCD). While this is most likely an Xfree config issue, similar to one I've dealt with in the past, it bothers me that kde would start differently. One would think that the process should be the same, and use the same config file. I'm going to look into this more... it's more of a bug that a serious thing, but interesting none the less.

-Griffin-