Problem with dualbooting Pardus 2011.

[John A]

This issue seems common with Pardus 2011:
http://worldforum.pardus-linux.nl/index.php?topic=3542.0

It was a review in the Swedish Datormagazin no:3 with Pardus 2011:
http://www.datormagazin.se/tidningar/datormagazin/41

You can not read the review on internet only at the magazine.
In short he was very negative at the dualboot experience. But it was ok as a singe operating system in the hardrive.
But it seems to destroy other partitions if you got other operating system installed.

Have anyone tested it or filled in a bug report of this?

[John A]

Just saw this comment from a review:

"hi i tried to dual boot pardus and windows 7..
i have dual booted many linux os with windows but with pardus i cant dual boot it,..i have already installed win 7 then installed pardus..it dint work..
then i installed pardus first and win 7 later..i tried to do dual booting ,using bcd ..i created 2 options at boot..windows 7 and pardus..win 7 boots fine..but when i select pardus nothing happens..just a black screen with a blinking cursor..could u pls make a video of this and upload in you tube..

if u cant make a video then please give all the screenshots of this installation that is DUAL BOOTING WINDOWS 7 AND PARDUS.. ,,especially for selecting the partitions and using bcd..PLS HELP ME..I LOVE THAT PARDUS OS..BUT CANT REMOVE WIN 7 SINCE MY PARENTS NEED IT.."

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/01/25/pardus-2011-review/

[atolboo]

If he is posting in this forum, I will try to help him in solving his problems

[John A]

Yes I have write a reply there.

[atolboo]

I found this >How to dual-boot Pardus 2011 and Windows 7 from LinuxBSDos.com< in my mailbox.

[John A]

It was a very good guide. I think it can help a lot of people that want to use Pardus 2011 but still want to keep Windows 7.
I have included the link in some Swedish Linux forums.

[atolboo]

I can't test this as I don't have W7.
Is there a difference in boot procedure of W7 and XP

[John A]

I dont know. I have only used Wubi/Ubuntu. Wish Pardus got that option to. Very easy to install and use.
I had Windows 7 in the c disk and put Ubuntu/Wubi in the d disk. It works excellent if only got one c disk to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_%28Ubuntu_installer%29

I did a request for it a long time ago. And now it seems that Pardus do some research about it to:
http://en.pardus-wiki.org/SummerOfCode2010Ideas#WUBI-like_Microsoft_Windows_installer_for_Pardus

I hope it be a Pardus option in future.

[alex]

I found this >How to dual-boot Pardus 2011 and Windows 7 from LinuxBSDos.com< in my mailbox.

This is the tutorial me and a friend (me on 32-bit, he on 64-bit) both followed to dual-boot Pardus 2011 and Windows 7. Neither of us have encountered any problems so far. It worked perfectly on an install where Windows 7 was there first and we were adding Pardus 2011 after.

[airtight]

I found this >How to dual-boot Pardus 2011 and Windows 7 from LinuxBSDos.com< in my mailbox.

This is the tutorial me and a friend (me on 32-bit, he on 64-bit) both followed to dual-boot Pardus 2011 and Windows 7. Neither of us have encountered any problems so far. It worked perfectly on an install where Windows 7 was there first and we were adding Pardus 2011 after.

Thanks for the link alex, I'll give it a read. Cheers.

Dale