2012/8/20 Conan Doyle <[email protected]>: > After numerous searches on how to setup CentOS 6.3 and Win7 to dual boot I > turn to the readers of this forum for help... > > I suppose my question is quite simple: > > What is the correct way to set up a dual boot system for CentOS 6.3, or SL > 6.3, and Windows 7? > > I have tried several times, with several variations, but run into the same > problem: After installing Win7, then CentOS, the machine boots straight into > Win7 and no grub menu appears... > > I have a pretty new system that I built in Nov 2012: i5-2500K, Gigabyte > GA-Z68XP-UD3 mobo, 8GB RAM, eVGA NVIDIA GTX 560 card, and two 1 TB SATA > drives. > > My first attempt was to install Win7 on drive 0 then install CentOS on drive > 1, with grub installed in the /boot partition which was on /dev/sdb1. > Apparently there were some issues with this due to Win7, UEFI, etc. I didn't > really understand all these problems so I tried again. > > My second attempt was to try to disable the EFI stuff in BIOS and install > WinXP, then install Win7 over this to avoid the system restore partition, > and EFI issues etc. then install CentOS over this, again installing grub to > /boot, which was /dev/sdb1. > > I noticed the default location for grub was /dev/sda, which is the windows > disk... Would this not hose up the windows install? > > I have set up Windows/CentOS dual booting before, but not on this machine, > and not with CentOS 6.3. Any help would be appreciated more than you can > imagine... > > > I have been a CentOS user for a while, but I am intrigued by SL, and would > definitely jump ship to SL if I can get it dual booting with Win7... > > Ed
First, you have to install windows and keep some space to your Linux. Linux will autodetect Windows, but Windows will not detect Linuxes. -- Henrique "LonelySpooky" Junior
