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On 8/26/06, Sven Köhler <skoehler@×××.de> wrote: |
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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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> AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like |
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> "grub-install /dev/hda1" just will not work. Only something like |
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> "grub-install /dev/hda" will do. |
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> LILO could be installed into some partition's boot-sector. I loved it - |
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> but GRUB doesn't like that idea. |
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Hi Sven, |
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No, it does work. I hgave one machine with Fedora's grub in the |
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MBR. One choice it had was to jump to grub in a partition so you got a |
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second set of boot options based on what hot-plug drive was installed. |
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It worked fine. |
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I did my first test of trying to use the NTLDR. It did attempt to |
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load the grub menu but then the grub boot fails, probably because I |
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have built a bad kernel or something. I think that this Windows NTLDR |
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method may end up being sort of difficult to get the machine working |
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the first time, but very reasonable later.. We'll see. |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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