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#1 2013-01-15 22:08:16

rugebiker
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Registered: 2010-08-26
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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!

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#2 2013-01-15 22:43:11

illusionist
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Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora


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#3 2013-01-15 22:43:12

cfr
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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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#4 2013-01-16 16:24:44

shulamy
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Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

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

evry update and arch's doesn't.

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#5 2013-01-17 16:34:11

rugebiker
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Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

Thanks all for replying (:

shulamy wrote:

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 smile

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#6 2013-01-17 18:31:27

shulamy
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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

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#7 2013-01-17 22:14:21

rugebiker
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Re: dual boot Arch and Fedora

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

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#8 2013-01-18 01:31:44

cfr
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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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#9 2013-01-20 17:14:07

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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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