Good Afternoon, On 20 Aug 2012, at 15:31, Conan Doyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the correct way to set up a dual boot system for CentOS 6.3, or SL > 6.3, and Windows 7? I'd do the following: Partition my hard disks Create a 100M partition as a boot partition at the start of the disk Install GRUB2 (or if not familiar with grub only install - install a really small linux distro) Install this to the boot partition Then copy the MBR to a save location Install windows to it's partition It may very well indeed nuke your newly created linux boot stuff, but we have a properly partition drive We also have the grub boot loader, and it's in the right place When windows is working, replace the MBR with the backup you took Install linux to it's partition Use the boot partition you created earlier as the boot partition for your linux install A modern distro will spot your windows instance, and reluctantly ask you if you want to use it If linux installer doesn't find windows Do a google search for manually configuring chain loaders in GRUB I could be 100% wrong, but for me it's the partitioning that always catches me out when building dual boot systems, making the boot partition first seems to always save me
