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Mark Knecht schrieb: |
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> Hi, |
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> My Gentoo AMD64 machine is the only machine in the house with a |
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> video card capable of running a Windows game my teenage kid got for |
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> his birthday. I checked Cedega and unfortunately they don't support it |
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> yet. This has raised the spectre of possibly adding Windows to this |
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> machine so that he can play the game. |
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> The machine has some disk space but it's at the end of the hard |
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> drive. I've not done a Windows install after running Gentoo ever. I |
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> used to add Gentoo to Windows boxes but haven't done it in a long |
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> time. What are the issues? |
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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? |
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Hi, |
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yes, thats the way of doing it. After your Windows is installed, the |
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Windows boot loader will have replaced your grub - so you have to boot |
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gentoo boot cd, do a chroot to your linux system and reinstall grub into |
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your MBR as it is described at Chapter 10 Gentoo Handbook. (Of course |
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you don't have to reemerge it!). |
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> 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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That is still a serious problem - Windows XP SP2 still needs at least a |
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very small primary partition for its boot loader. The other stuff can be |
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installed at an extended partition. If you have no prim. partition left, |
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you have to free at least one of it, otherwise it is not possible to |
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install or run Windows. I have tried a workaround for this - installing |
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Windows at a primary partition and then moving it to an extended |
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partition, but that doesn't work too. So I had to give up my 32MB |
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boot-partition and moved this partition into an extended partition. |
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After that the Windows installer grabed this partition for its boot |
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loader, but Windows itself is now laying at the end of the disk. |
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> What other problems am I likely to have, assuming Windows doesn't |
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> completely wipe the drive and leave me in a world of pain? |
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Hmm, I don't know any further problems. After your GRUB is back, Windows |
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won't touch your MBR - and because Windows can't see your Ext/Reiser/XFS |
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partitions it won't create a Recycle Bin either. ;) |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mark |
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Regards Christian |
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