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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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I'll check it out. I found this page: |
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http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php |
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and others like it. This pages recommend building a file for NT to |
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boot into Linux using this sort of command: |
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dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 |
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Presumably I'd do this on the Gentoo boot sector after loading grub? |
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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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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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On 8/26/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:16, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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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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> Please don't! It'll wipe out the Windoze partition boot sector and he won't |
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> be able to boot WinXP again (not without running the fixboot command from a |
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> WinXP installation CD). |
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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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> I would put Grub in the Gentoo boot partition and chainload it using WinXP's |
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> NTLD - google for it and if you can't find it write back and I'll have a |
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> look. If at any moment he decides that Gentoo is not for him, he can |
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> remove/delete the Gentoo partitions without any ill effect on his WinXP. |
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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$'s boot loader back in the |
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> > MBR and let it boot normally? |
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> You could that and install Grub on /dev/hda (my preferred way because I like |
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> Grub). However, to restore things to the M$Windoze way, you will need to run |
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> the fixmbr command from a WinXP installation CD. That'll rewrite the MBR |
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> with the Windoze boot code. |
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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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> If Google does not come up with something post back and I'll have a look |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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