How do I boot from my windows partition after installing linux?
I just installed Fedora on a separate partition from my Windows one. How do I boot from the other partition?
And if there is another way to boot from Windows back to linux, please tell me as well. Thanks in advance.
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Filed under Desktops by on Jan 17th, 2010. 
Comments on How do I boot from my windows partition after installing linux?
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Make sure that the entry for Windows appears in your /boot/grub.conf file (type gedit /boot/grub.conf). The line you are looking for should list your windows partition, maybe hd0,0 (the first partition of the first or master hard drive) or whatever corresponds to the windows partiton (note the grub starts with 0 when listing devices). Also check the timeout value, should be long enough for you to choose your boot options.
reboot.
when grub pops up, press the arrow keys to select (by the way, you may not be able to see your options until you press the arrow key at least once…)
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Well I don’t know about Fedora but about half the distros come with GRUB (the bootloader) and when you’re installing it you have to tell it you want to dual-boot. I’m running opensuse and I know you can get to the grub menu through yast, but I don’t know about fedora
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You have to chainload the Windows bootloader from Grub
-Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
-Add something like:
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
-Save and exit
At the (hd0,0) part, the first 0 represents the hard drive, 0 would be the first hard drive, 1 would be the second, and so on. The second 0 represents the partition number. 0 would be the first partition, 1 would be the second…
So (hd0,0) would be the first hard drive on the first partition.
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if u really wann learn to do it and easy u can u youtbe it and it will show u how.