Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

[pat]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:51:30 +0100, Mick wrote
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:09, pat wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:17:50 +0100, Mick wrote
> >
> > > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:51, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > > Hello pat,
> > > >
> > > > > Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot
> > > > > from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition
> > > > > bootable and remove all other partitions including /boot with GRUB
> > > > > configuration - and when the /boot is removed then there's not
> > > > > possible to use GRUB, because of the grub.conf, and that's why I need
> > > > > to set recovery partition bootable without GRUB.
> > > >
> > > > Set the partition to be bootable in cfdisk, before removing the Linux
> > > > partitions.
> > >
> > > fdisk, cfdisk, etc. will all set the bootable flag.  The question is
> > > why do you need to remove a)grub, b)the /boot partition?  Is your
> > > Windows recovery partition script expecting Windows to be the first
> > > partition on the disk and you have moved it since installation?
> > >
> > > Perhaps next time you'll use partimage with Gentoo to create a back
> > > up image of your Windows partition and so you will be able to
> > > restore it within 40 minutes or so, depending on the speed of your
> > > machine.
> >
> > Well, the recovery process requires whole disk space and "clear" MBR. Yes,
> > right now I've 'dd'ed fresh windows installation and next reinstall should
> > be really fast - expect 15 minutes instead of the whole day ;-)
> >
> > Some information what I've used to remove GRUB from MBR. In windows (don't
> > beat me) there are tools 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' and Ive used them.
> >
> > Probably last question: When I've tried to set the recovery partition
> > 'active' in fdisk, the system still boots from the GRUB and not from the
> > 'active' partition ... I think I've did it wrong, did I?
>
> fixmbr will replace GRUB's boot code in the mbr with ntldr's (WinXP)
> .  fixboot will replace the partition boot sector code with WinXP's.
>  You'll need to run the former on the drive and the latter on the
> partition in which the WinXP installation existed.  Not sure if you
> would need to run fixboot on your recovery partition, but I don't
> know how your 'recovery partition' works.  Does it contain a
> complete image of your WinXP partition?  Usually, the conventional
> WinXP recovery partition only contains certain libs & configuration
> files, not a complete installation.

This one contains full WinXP install ... :-\

>
> > Thanks to all for help.
>
> You're welcome.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

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