Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Fedora 7 linux questions and annoyances?

I have Windows XP Pro on one partition. I installed fedora 7 in the other partition (now I'm using fedora as I'm typing this) and when booting up the select operating system menu doesn't appear, so I can't boot up windows if needed. What should I do? Also, I can't see the other partition from fedora (I mean the partition where windows is installed). How can I change the screen resolution on fedora other than 800x600. There are only two options 640x480 and 800x600? Is there any way to change it to 104x768?Fedora 7 linux questions and annoyances?
First, hopefully you installed Grub boot manager when you installed Fedora. If so you can add the XP partition to the

Grub menu by editing /boot/grub/grub.conf from your root userid. It will look something like this.



title Windows 2000

rootnoverify (hd0,0) %26lt;%26lt;%26lt;%26lt; careful to use the right partition

makeactive

chainloader +1

boot



Check out the links below.



Change your screen resolution from

system-%26gt;Administration-%26gt;Display



I am assuming you are using KDE and that is how you can do it there. You will need to enter your root password.

If you are not given the correct resolution is it because you have the wrong video card or monitor defined to X windows. So go to the Hardware tab and make sure you have the correct video card and/or monitor defined.Fedora 7 linux questions and annoyances?
There is an xorg.conf file somewhere (can't remember off hand, try googling) I had this issue of resolution too. You need to edit the file and type in the resolution you want.



What type of boot manager does FC use? Something like Grub or LILO?
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