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Hi, |
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A friend asked about trying out Linux. After doing a bit of reading |
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and looking at the Gentoo site he wanted to try Gentoo so I said I'd |
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help install it o his Windows box. The situation that I've not faced |
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in a long time, if ever, is that he has an existing Windows |
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installation on the first half of the drive. The partition is standard |
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Win-XP NTSF. I do not know how to load grub on this machine. |
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1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong |
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to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF. |
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2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard |
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chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should |
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be marked as bootable? |
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3) Put grub in the MBR and point it at the Gentoo boot partition to |
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find grub.conf? This seems possible. If I do this and it gets messed |
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up, what do I need from Windows to put M$'s boot loader back in the |
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MBR and let it boot normally? |
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4) Something else? |
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I looked around for a Gentoo Wiki but they seem to all be written |
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as if Windows is on a second drive. I couldn't find this case. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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