Tag: Grub2
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Grub2 Not Booting into Windows 7 After Fedora 17 Install
I have a number of dual boot machines working fine with earlier versions of Fedora. After a Fedora 17 install I get, along with at locale file error message flashing up error: invalid signature Press any key to continue And Windows won’t boot. Following the example in the bugzilla.redhat.com posting I made the change of…
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More Fedora 16 Grub2 Tips and Tricks
I resolved the core.img is unusually large problem by expanding the boot partition. I was reinstalling a server yesterday and I found that Fedora 16 Anaconda will put a 1MB partition first in order to boot, before adding the 500MB (current standard) partition for /boot. Yeah! On the first machine, one of the tasks I…
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Fedora 16 Grub2 Fail with “core.img is unusually large”
I was upgrading to Fedora 16 on my Dell Dimension E520, originally loaded with XP, and all manners of problems occurred with Grub2. The machine is set to dual boot Linux and Windows XP and has worked fine in this capacity while testing and using a number of Linux distributions including Fedora 14 and Fedora…
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Changing Boot Sequence in Grub2
I just loaded Fedora 16. I have this odd Dell Inspiron with a WinTV Express Card, the only card ever built for this slot. To simplify my life I run Windows 7 for TV and Linux for everything else. Where was I? How to alter the boot sequence in grub2 # cat /boot/grub2/grub.cfg |grep Windows…