Adding Windows 7 to Fedora 17 Grub Boot Loader

I'm trying to set up a dual-boot situation with my Windows 7 and Fedora 17 partitions and I left the install grub to /boot option on when I was installing Fedora. I would like to be able to add Windows 7 to the grub boot loader, but the advice I've seen online says to modify /boot/grub/grub.conf, but I don't have that file.

$ ls /boot/grub/
splash.xpm.gz

Has anyone done this? I'm thinking that I'll just need to re-install everything and use the Windows boot loader, but it would be nice to use grub instead.

Kyle Sletten

Posted 2012-06-09T08:49:20.273

Reputation: 239

1you might meed to install os-prober package as well – Dirk Hartzer Waldeck – 2012-06-11T07:02:45.923

Answers

Connect Windows 7 Disk.
Boot with Fedora Disk.
Launch Terminal login root user.
update-grub
Restart.

LinuxUser

Posted 2012-06-09T08:49:20.273

Reputation: 159

What exactly do you mean by update-grub? Is that a program? If so, when I try it I get command not found. – Kyle Sletten – 2012-06-09T15:22:43.660

4@kyle update-grub is a Ubuntu (and perhaps Debian) command for updating grub. You might want to try grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg to update grub. – jokerdino – 2012-06-09T15:25:33.683

grub.conf is not in /grub but in /boot/grub2.

abhi

Posted 2012-06-09T08:49:20.273

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