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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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The NTLDR bootloader is no more since Vista. A different boot loading |
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arrangement exists and I am not sure of its behaviour. |
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> > If I were to use W7's NTLDR equivalent [...] [would] I be able to |
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> > chainload GRUB from it? |
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> I assume you mean "to" it. (I have a nasty, ever-growing suspicion that |
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> Americans not only don't know their tenses, but they think backwards - |
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> either that or I do.) :-) |
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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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> Again, the answer's a lemon - suck it and see. |
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> No offence intended. |
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Thanks, none received. I am not American. ;-) |
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PS. Not that this somehow makes my English good, or that I share your view on |
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American grammar. I have heard worse English being spoken in places like e.g. |
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Northampton England, than any places that I happened to have visited in the |
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US. :-)) |
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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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Regards, |
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Mick |
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