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From: pat <pat@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:02:21
Message-Id: 20070704055126.M67276@xvalheru.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition by Randy Barlow
1 On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:14:58 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote
2 > pat wrote:
3 > > I've used the fdisk, but it's not enough. Could someone
4 > > suggest a tool, which can help me to select bootable partition?
5 >
6 > I'm not clear on this - did you type 'a' and select the recovery
7 > partition to make it bootable? And did you set up grub to boot from
8 > that partition? You probably need to use the chainloader command
9 > and such...
10 >
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12 > Randy Barlow
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14 >
15 > But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
16 > people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the
17 > excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his
18 > marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's
19 > people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received
20 > mercy. ~1 Peter 2:9-10
21 >
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24
25 Hi,
26
27 Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot from
28 recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition bootable and
29 remove all other partitions including /boot with GRUB configuration - and when
30 the /boot is removed then there's not possible to use GRUB, because of the
31 grub.conf, and that's why I need to set recovery partition bootable without GRUB.
32
33 Thanks a lot
34
35 Pat
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Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>