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Mick wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The |
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> third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is |
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> flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) tools. |
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> I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back up partition and is |
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> meant to be used to restore the OS in the third partition. This confuses me a |
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> bit - shouldn't the third partition which houses the OS be flagged as bootable |
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> instead? |
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> Anyway, I do not want to interfere with the Dell/MS Windows OS way of booting, |
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> at least until the warranty expires. What is the recommended way of dual |
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> booting with Gentoo? In the past I have either installed GRUB in the MBR and |
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> chainloaded WinXP from there, or I have installed GRUB in the Linux partition |
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> boot record and then used NTLDR to chainload grub from the MSWindows |
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> bootloader. |
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Not the answer you asked for, but I'm running the public beta of Win7 on |
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virtualbox, and it works so well that leaving the original install on the |
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machine seems like a waste of space to me. Maybe the fancy-shmancy desktop |
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with the transparent windows won't work quite as well on virtualbox, but I |
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don't use Windows anyway, unless I'm forced. |
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