Dual booting Linux Mint and Fedora (while ubuntu is also installed on second partitio

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Hello guys. I need your help please. This weekend I decided to download Ubuntu Oneiric Alpha to see what its like. Turns out it is very unstable (to be expected I guess). Anyways...long story short I decided now to download Fefora 15 to take Gnome 3 for a test run. My setup is now as below

1 Linux Mint installed and has the first and biggest partition on my drive
2 Ubuntu Oneric has the second and smallest partition on my drive

It created a dual boot menu from which I can select what OS I want to boot up at the moment. I have done some reading and it seems that Fedora could cause problems if I install it over the Ubuntu partition. Something about it overwriting my grub and then I wont be able to load Mint anymore.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=268494

I have read the above thread and I think I understand it correctly. They saying that you need to have Fedora install its grub in the second partition (not the master one). What do I do afterwards though or will this update my dual boot menu thingy automaticaly? I am very confused.

Can you guys give me some advice???
 
ocleroux said:
I have read the above thread and I think I understand it correctly. They saying that you need to have Fedora install its grub in the second partition (not the master one). What do I do afterwards though or will this update my dual boot menu thingy automaticaly? I am very confused.
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Di not read the link or anything but if I understand you correctly you would install a new grub on the partition Fedora is installed on? If this is the case then you would have to edite your grub on the root of the drive to chainload the grub loader on the other partition.
 
ponder said:
Di not read the link or anything but if I understand you correctly you would install a new grub on the partition Fedora is installed on? If this is the case then you would have to edite your grub on the root of the drive to chainload the grub loader on the other partition.
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heh? Oh boy..../gets out linux for dummies handbook :-)

I have no idea how to edit the grub thingy. Maybe I will just install it on a external usb HDD to play with it a bit. Is that possible? I think I saw in my BIOS you can select a usb drive for boot up? Watcha think? Safer option perhaps? I think I have a 350gig Samsung usb drive lying around somewhere.
 
For future reference; If you ever mess up your grub (which I seem to do on a regular basis :) ) here's a nice tool I found to repair it quite easily.

Boot-Repair
 
Fedora 15 doesn't work so lekke in Virtualbox. Last time I tried it defaulted to the video fallback mode (basically gnome 2 layout - no gnome shell). Maybe its been fixed now though, maybe just check.
 
timvdwest said:
Fedora 15 doesn't work so lekke in Virtualbox. Last time I tried it defaulted to the video fallback mode (basically gnome 2 layout - no gnome shell). Maybe its been fixed now though, maybe just check.
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I cant get it to work in VB it seems. I create the maching...select my CD drive as the boot drive and fire it up. Comes up with the Fedora Bootup saying "Automatic boot in 10 seconds" and then once the countdown is finished it does nothing.

I am now actually posting this running in a Fedora Live Session. It seems rather nice actually :-) Trying to figure out if my Nvidia GPU driver is supported. My 3G modem works 100% it seems.
 
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Cool, glad you got it working. Fedora 15 and Gnome3/Shell rock face. Be sure to install the gnome-shell-extensions if you want to get some functionality back that you were used to on gnome 2.

Enjoy!

EDIT: Yes, the Nvidia drivers are supported. If you want to use the proprietary drivers just make sure you remove all traces of the existing drivers beforehand. I spent a bit of time tracking these down in a console session because I didn't remove them before I installed the new driver. Also, when using the proprietary drivers you lose the pretty Fedora plymouth boot screen, but everything else seemed to work fine.
 
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mmmm after a good hour of figuring out how to get my Nvidia drivers on Fedora...I am now rather enjoying it. At first I thought... "OMG...what have I done...removing my Linux Mint completely! URG!!!"....but now that I kinda know how it works...it seems like a rather nice Distro. Already got VLC and Handbrake on also :-) I think I will keep this now for a while :-)
 
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