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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:58:16AM +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote: |
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> > > If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it |
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> > > to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main W7 OS |
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> > > partition 3? |
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> > The one with W7 on it, I should have thought, as that's the one you want |
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> > to start. Why not just try it? And when you find out which partition is |
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> > which, why not set the bootable flag on the right one? I.e. the one with |
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> > grub in it. |
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> I am not sure that I would want to do this. I recall that MSWindows used to |
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> be and it possible still is rather sensitive with needing the boot flag on its |
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> partition. Linux on the other hand is a more advanced OS which does not care |
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> where the boot flag is. |
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If you were to go with the GRUB -> W7 route, I don't think just trying |
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out the two configurations (don't change boot flags, just try each |
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partition) would've hurt. The worst that I can imagine is an error |
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thrown about OS not found. |
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> Nope. I mean use the Windows 7 bootloader as the primary bootloader to |
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> chainload GRUB from the Gentoo partition. The MSWindows stays in the MBR as |
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> it is now, the GRUB is installed in the Gentoo /boot partition. MSWindows |
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> bootloader chainloads GRUB. |
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I wish you good luck with your project. |
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> PPS. I am making some progress with this (at least in terms of googling) and |
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> will report back as soon as I have achieved this MSWindows --> chainloading -- |
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> > Gentoo thing. |
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Please do write a page on the Wiki (or at least a summary of what you |
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did to this mailing list). This will be some handy information to |
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have. |
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Cheers, |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |