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On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 28 February 2010 23:51:21 Mick wrote: |
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>> I have now succeeded at achieving what I wanted: to use the |
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>> Windows 7 boot manager (bootmgr.exe) which is the successor to |
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>> NTLDR to chainload GRUB from it and so leave the Windows |
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>> installation intact (at least until the warranty expires) ;-) |
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> Thanks for the howto, Mick. I followed it on my Windows Vista Home |
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> Premium 64; got "The operation completed successfully" all the way |
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> through, but on reboot I don't get a boot menu. |
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Can you please post your partition table (cfdisk, or parted will do), |
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let me know which is your Gentoo /boot partition if it is not obvious |
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and the drive letters as understood by Vista when it is running. A |
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screenshot of gparted will help (email off list to keep the bandwidth |
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down) because it also shows the Labels. |
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> This doesn't matter much to me at the moment, as I use Acronis OSS |
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> Selector for boot manager, but this doesn't work on Windows 7, so |
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> my free update to Windows 7 is gathering dust. |
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As long as the upgrade to Windows 7 does not mess up the MS boot |
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partition then achieving this in Vista will be a good dry run for when |
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you install Windows 7. However, I am not sure that you will be able |
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to achieve this test run while Acronis is managing your boot session. |
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My method implies that you use the native MSWindows boot manager. |
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> Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc63 kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r5 |
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> AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor gcc(Gentoo: 4.4.3) |
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> KDE: 3.5.10 Qt: 3.3.8b |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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