I have Fedora 17 running on a machine and I have a spare drive which I would like to install Win 7 on. Windows 7 will blow away my Linux boot so I want to be confident I can sort out the dual boot (or as a minimum, get back to Fedora) afterwards.
I wanted to setup a boot USB (or CD) with a different grub2 menu and confirm that I could boot with this before installing Windows 7. I have a USB drive that I know I can boot Live images from.
I have tried various grub2 commands to boot from my USB drive so far, in particular:
> mount /dev/sde1 /mnt # usb stick
> grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> grub2-install /dev/sde
When I try to boot from the USB I seem some messages flash up on the screen (too fast to read) and then it jumps into my normal grub menu.
A summary of my config:
Anyhow, I'm not even certain this is the right approach - any tips on how I can get past the win 7 install to dual boot would be greatly appreciated.
I wanted to setup a boot USB (or CD) with a different grub2 menu and confirm that I could boot with this before installing Windows 7. I have a USB drive that I know I can boot Live images from.
I have tried various grub2 commands to boot from my USB drive so far, in particular:
> mount /dev/sde1 /mnt # usb stick
> grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> grub2-install /dev/sde
When I try to boot from the USB I seem some messages flash up on the screen (too fast to read) and then it jumps into my normal grub menu.
A summary of my config:
- all drives are GPT partitioned
- /dev/sda (SSD) is boot drive.
- Using grub2.
- All other drives are 2TB
- Fedora is using mirrored RAID.
- New drive is GPT partitioned with parted.
- BIOS claims to be EFI compatible but I am using BIOS boot.
Anyhow, I'm not even certain this is the right approach - any tips on how I can get past the win 7 install to dual boot would be greatly appreciated.