Hey All -
Just for the heck of it, I decided to set up a triple boot of my Ultrabook last night. I'm doing Windows 8, Windows 7, & Fedora 18. I currently have all 3 OS's installed, but after installing the last OS (Win8), Grub disappeared and I'm only prompted for Win7 & Win8.
I figured that if I re-install GRUB onto the Fedora partition, then the GRUB should re-appear. The problem is that I'm fairly new to the Fedora distro and when I try to mount the partition to install Grub to it, I can't mount it.
Below is the process I followed. Please let me know how I can get Grub reinstalled OR any other idea to select to boot from the 3 OS's.
Triple Boot Steps
1. Removed all partitions from 225gb SSD HDD
2. Installed Windows 7 onto 190gb partition (NTFS)
3. Installed Fedora 18 DVD (KDE) Had installed auto-partition the remaining ~35gb from disk
At this point upon boot-up, I had a GRUB menu with a Windows 7 options and Fedora 18 - both worked.
4. Loaded Windows 7 & created a dynamic 80gb VHD
5. Booted to Win8 media, mounted the VHD, then installed Win8 to it
At this point, upon boot-up, I have only a Windows 8 boot menu with options for Windows 8 or Windows 7. Fedora obviously still exists on the disk, but I cannot see it.
Fixing Grub
I read that I could boot to a Live CD, then run the following commands in terminal to reinstall Grub:
sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
sudo grub-install -root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
My Fedora partition is sda5 but when trying to mount it, I got an lvm2_member error.
Using lvs, I was finally able to get the partition mounted, but then couldn't get Grub re-installed.
Any help or suggestions to remedy this would be greatly appreciated - Thanks!
Just for the heck of it, I decided to set up a triple boot of my Ultrabook last night. I'm doing Windows 8, Windows 7, & Fedora 18. I currently have all 3 OS's installed, but after installing the last OS (Win8), Grub disappeared and I'm only prompted for Win7 & Win8.
I figured that if I re-install GRUB onto the Fedora partition, then the GRUB should re-appear. The problem is that I'm fairly new to the Fedora distro and when I try to mount the partition to install Grub to it, I can't mount it.
Below is the process I followed. Please let me know how I can get Grub reinstalled OR any other idea to select to boot from the 3 OS's.
Triple Boot Steps
1. Removed all partitions from 225gb SSD HDD
2. Installed Windows 7 onto 190gb partition (NTFS)
3. Installed Fedora 18 DVD (KDE) Had installed auto-partition the remaining ~35gb from disk
At this point upon boot-up, I had a GRUB menu with a Windows 7 options and Fedora 18 - both worked.
4. Loaded Windows 7 & created a dynamic 80gb VHD
5. Booted to Win8 media, mounted the VHD, then installed Win8 to it
At this point, upon boot-up, I have only a Windows 8 boot menu with options for Windows 8 or Windows 7. Fedora obviously still exists on the disk, but I cannot see it.
Fixing Grub
I read that I could boot to a Live CD, then run the following commands in terminal to reinstall Grub:
sudo mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
sudo grub-install -root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
My Fedora partition is sda5 but when trying to mount it, I got an lvm2_member error.
Using lvs, I was finally able to get the partition mounted, but then couldn't get Grub re-installed.
Any help or suggestions to remedy this would be greatly appreciated - Thanks!