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I have a new laptop that I need to set up for dual booting. As much as |
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I despise Microsoft, I have to use it for certain things. Such as some |
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obscure peripherals, like my slide photo scanner, it doesn't support |
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Linux and TD Ameritrade's streaming Java tools don't work the same as on |
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Linux. Until corporation's smarten up Microsoft will be a problem. |
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The setup for dual booting seem pretty straight forward. Install |
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windows first, then Linux, and modify the boot loader. However, I have |
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a couple of question and observations. |
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First, the observations. I tried to partition my disk with fdisk the |
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way I wanted. It had the usual Linux partitions and a partition that I |
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was going to use for Window 7. I wanted to make this an LVM2 partition, |
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but that didn't work; I guess that was too ambitious. Then I just made |
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it an ordinary static HPFS/NTFS partition on /dev/sda5. When installing |
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Windows 7 it wouldn't install on that partition. I deleted all the |
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partitions and just installed it on the first 50Gigs of the disk. |
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Second, the questions. The Windows 7 install on the first 50Gigs of the |
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disk needed to created two partitions. The first was a very small boot |
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partition that I increased to 128Megs, and the second is the rest of |
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Windows 7. Now when I boot to the livecd to partition the rest of the |
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disk for Gentoo fdisk says "Partition 1 does not end on a cylinder |
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boundary." Is this a problem? The other big question is: what do I do |
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about the first partition in the partition table? It is an HPFS/NTFS |
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partition and has been toggled bootable. It also has some stuff in it |
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that looks like it's important to Windows: a BOOTSECT.BAK file, a Boot |
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directory, a System Volume Information directory, and a bootmgr file. |
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Now for my Gentoo install, how and where do I make a /boot partition? |
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Do I replace the Windows 7 boot partition with /boot? If so, what |
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happens to the contents? or Do I make a /boot partition on /dev/sda3 |
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and toggle the bootable flag there? |
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I apologize for the long story. Thanks in advance for all the help. |
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dhk |