How to Dual Boot Windows 7 with Linux

Topic:  Operating System, Linux, Windows 7  Product:  EasyBCD  Related Questions:  dual boot windows 7 rhel5.5   opensuse dual boot windows 7 alienware   sysprep dual boot windows 7   fedora 16 dual boot windows 7   dual boot windows 7 ubuntu easybcd  

You installed both Windows 7 and Linux, then you restarted you compute, you'll find it just booted with one of the two operating system automatically, the other operating system is missing. If you are frustrated with this problem, here I'm going to teach you how to deal with it.

Solution

Basic knowledge: There is one and only one active partition in your hard disk, when you start you computer, it would boot from the active partition. You can change which partition is active using partition tools such as Partition Manager. To dual boot Windows 7 with Linux, you have two choices:

 (1) Add Linux entries in Windows (The Windows 7 partition is the active partition).

 (2) Add Windows 7 entries in Linux (The Linux partition is the active partition).

The following is the solution:

  1. Install Windows 7.
  2. Download EasyBCD 1.7.2 and install it.
  3. Install Linux.
    If you are using a CD, you could start the installation directly. If you don't have a CD, you could install it with a ISO image. 
    There many Linux versions, most are alike(Redhat 9 is relative difficult, because there are 3 ISO images),  Here is a example of installing Fedora 12:
    Download the Fedora install ISO image.
    Open Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso with WinRAR, put the isolinux and the images folders to "C:\".
    Put Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso  to "C:\".
    Open EasyBCD and click Add/Remove Entries -> NeoGrub -> Install NeoGrub.
    Image:Dual Boot Windows 7 with Linux1.png
    Click Configure, in the file menu.lst that appears, add the following to the end of it.
    title install fedora
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel (hd0,0)/isolinux/vmlinuz
    initrd (hd0,0)/isolinux/initrd.img
    Image:Dual Boot Windows 7 with Linux2.png
    restart you computer, select install fedora, and then begins the installation.
    When partitioning, choose Create custom layout and click next.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux3.png
    Select the partition you'd like to install Linux, click Delete and then click New.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux4.png
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux5.png
    In the dialog that appears, the mount point is "/", the File System is ext4, and select Fill to maximum allowable size.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux6.png
    Click Next.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux7.png
    There isn't a swap partition, so there is a warning, click yes(if your Memory is larger than 1 Gb, you could ignore it, otherwise you need to specify a swap partition).
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux8.png
    Click Write changes to disk.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux9.png
     Click Change device(this is important).
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux10.png
    Choose First sector of boot partition.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux11.png
    The other is the entry of Windows 7,Select other and click Edit to modify the name of it.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux12.png
    Select the software you want to install and click next, the next steps are very simple.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux13.png
  4. Now restart your computer, in the menu you could select Windows 7 or Linux, you have completed the dual boot. But if you want to boot Linux in Windows 7, you need do the following steps:
    Chang the partition of Windows 7 to active. Open EasyBCD and click Add/Remove Entries -> Linux.
    Type the Name of you Linux, and Select the Drive where you installed your Linux to.
    Image:Dual_Boot_Windows_7_with_Linux14.png
    Click Add Entry and restart your compute, then you could select Linux when booting your system.

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See also

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