Windows 7 dual boot loader problem

**Nand-Kishore** · 10-09-2010

Hello,
I have set my laptop with Windows 7 Professional and Fedora 11 as a dual boot. However, I now have a problem with the boot loader. At the start I get the error message "failed to set xfermode. I have searched for the error and tried the solution but unfortunately not worked. I put the BugReport times, so maybe someone can start something. Fedora has somehow also quite a problem with Wlan and Firefox etc.. Firefox can start up it takes years and the Wlan shows indeed that it is connected. Please help me out with this. Thank you for your help in advance.

**Amy Adams** · 10-09-2010

Have you tried the following commands in your system.

What happens when

Code:

acpi = off

or

Code:

ide = nodma

or

Code:

nousbstorage

What is the out put of the following commands, if you can then please display the results / output of the commands in your next post.

**Nand-Kishore** · 10-09-2010

Than you for the reply, can only for understanding how, for example, affect the power management the boot process or the installation? I am assuming that the "irqpoll", to / boot / grub / menu.lst in the "boot line insert" must be right. Is this correct? If I am wrong some where then please correct me with the same.

**Trini Alvarado** · 10-09-2010

This is a simple shell script try this

Code:

default = 0
timeout = 5
title Fedora (fc11.x86_64)
   root (hd0, 0)
   kernel / vmlinuz-2.6. root = UUID-fc11.x86_64 = 2d541118f-9dfgd-49d1-ba36-64sdfg2453gc73 vga = 791 irqpoll

Of course, you have other boot options in it (quite so). But are deactivated for me, because I want to see the boot messages. Or you give it the boot with a test. When Grub kernel select press, e, choose 2nd line, press e, type irqpoll, press enter, press b. For this you have to but in your grub.conf Change the timeout = 0 timeout = 10, otherwise you see the boot menu is not displayed.

**Bricklayer** · 10-09-2010

If you install from the DVD, you can embed in the installation of the update repository. Then should the current kernel 64.fc11. Network connection work is important. The Grub-password should then appear, if you want the boot entry change during boot.