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On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:10, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Thanks Mick, |
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> I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and |
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> somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to |
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> boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up |
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> using Linux at all. |
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Yes. You may also remove the linux boot image file C:\bootsect.lnx. The only |
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drawback is that if he keeps Gentoo and ends up using it regularly, then |
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every time you/he compile a new kernel you will need to repeat the exercise. |
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> Presumably I'd do this on the Gentoo boot sector after loading grub? |
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Yes. Otherwise the dd command will not find the Grub boot code in the |
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partition boot sector to copy into bootsect.lnx. |
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> Last thing for now - does the Gentoo boot partition need to be |
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> marked as bootable in fdisk? I'm not clear about that at all. |
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No, not at all. Grub and Linux does not need this flag. WinXP on the other |
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hand may well need it - if there are other Windoze OS' on the same machine, |
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if the NTLDR.exe is on a any other than the first partition on the first |
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disk, etc. So, just in case, I suggest that you flag as bootable the WinXP |
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partition. |
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Good luck. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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