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>> I assume that the Windows install would wipe out grub. Would I just |
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>> reinstall grub from a Gentoo install CD to get it back and then modify |
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>> my grub config file to set up the dual boot? Any grub/Windows issues |
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>> having Windows at the end of the drive sitting in an extended |
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>> partition? |
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> I don't have any recent experience of this, and in particular I haven't |
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> tried it with XP, but I think you're right to be worried about the kind of |
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> partition M$ lives in. Time was (and may be still) when it insisted on |
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> being in the first primary partition on the first disk. Any departure from |
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> these conditions led to all sorts of daft behaviour by Windows. Why M$ |
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> thought it ought to make a difference defeats me. |
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I did the same on my laptop a year ago with Windows 2000 and it removed |
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lilo. Some version of Windows' installed will also wipe the whole hard |
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drive before installing. |
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If it is only lilo / grub then booting from a gentoo CD, mounting the root |
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and boot partitions, chrooting to them and reinstalling them will fix it. |
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The only reason I had to go through it myself was because Compaq decided |
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it would be "nice" to make a critical bios update only run in Windows. |
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