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rugebiker

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Registered: 2010-08-26

Posts: 8

dual boot Arch and Fedora

Hi, I just bought a new laptop and I want to install Arch + Fedora + Windows (the lap comes with BIOS)
The laptop comes with 120 GB SSD + 750 GB HDD.

How I plan to do the partitions are:

In the SSD:
- Some gigs for Windows.
- /boot
- / for Arch
- / for Fedora
- SWAP (shared for both)

In the HDD:
- Some gigs in ntfs for windows
- A partition in ext4 for all my data.

The question I have is: how can I manage grub to detect both linux distros? Should I make two separate /boot partitions (one for each distro)? Or can I install grub just in one /boot and let both distros to modify it? or what is the best recommendation on doing this?

thanks a lot!

illusionist

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From: localhost

Registered: 2012-04-03

Posts: 498

Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

See this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub

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cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,156

Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Dual-booting

Use one /boot. Install and manage grub from one distro.

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shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 466

Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

i do it from fedora because it's kernel name changes

evry update and arch's doesn't.

ezik

rugebiker

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Registered: 2010-08-26

Posts: 8

Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

Thanks all for replying (:

i do it from fedora because it's kernel name changes

evry update and arch's doesn't.

ezik

So what you did was first installing arch with /boot in a separate partition, and then installed fedora replacing the arch /boot with the new fedora /boot? or you just told fedora to use the arch /boot as its /boot ?

thanks

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 466

Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

i have them on separate disks.

so i choose the fedora disk in the bios.

you have to replace arch's bootloader with fedora's

or tell arch not to install boot loader if fedora is installed before.

ezik

rugebiker

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Registered: 2010-08-26

Posts: 8

Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

oo ok thanks! i read some other stuff too and now I get it. Thanks for the help (:

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,156

Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

You don't really need to tell Arch not to install a boot loader. Unless you tell it to install one, it won't. (Even if it installs the package as part of a group, it won't install it to disk etc.)

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dr_te_z

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From: Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-06

Posts: 154

Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

I've got a comparable setup. I added 1 extra "data partition" (ntfs) to share with all 3 the O.S.ses.

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