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Hello, |
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Usually when installing a portable, I leeave the windows and resize the disk |
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space to set up gentoo as the second OS with grub...... |
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On one portable, The windows XP was a pain so I nuked it and got gentoo |
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working first. Now I need to install XP on the portable, but do not |
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wish XP to rewrite he MBR or any other such nefarious acts against the |
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gentoo partitions. |
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Any suggestions as to best methods are most appreciated. Heres the part info: |
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/dev/hda2 /boot reiserfs defaults 1 2 |
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/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 |
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/dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 0 1 |
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/dev/hda7 /usr/local reiserfs defaults 0 1 |
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hda1 is reserved for XP |
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Here's the portion of grub.conf already set up for gentoo & XP: |
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title= Linux 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 |
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root(hd0,1) |
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kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/hda6 |
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title=Possible Windows P1 |
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rootnoverify (hd0,0) |
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makeactive |
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chainloader +1 |
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So I thinking after installing XP in the first partition, |
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all I have to do is execute/copy something to set up |
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the MBR so it sees grub.conf again, whilst XP is booted |
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up? |
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suggestions? |
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James |
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I thinking I just need to copy this |
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