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On 15 February 2010 23:45, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > > I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. |
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> The |
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> > > third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition |
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> is |
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> > > flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) |
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> > > tools. I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back up |
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> > > partition and is meant to be used to restore the OS in the third |
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> > > partition. This confuses me a bit - shouldn't the third partition |
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> which |
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> > > houses the OS be flagged as bootable instead? |
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> > |
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> > Take a look at this |
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> http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-har |
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> > mony Apparently you can now re-size online partitions with Windows 7 |
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> > itself. |
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> > |
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> > Google also suggests you can chainload Windows 7 in the usual way using |
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> > grub. |
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> Thank you both for your replies. If I were to choose GRUB to chainload W7 |
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> what should I point it to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or |
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> the |
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> main W7 OS partition 3? |
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> If I were to use W7's NTLDR equivalent - whatever this technology might be |
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> will I be able to chainload GRUB from it? |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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> |
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Take a look at EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=642 |
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The latest betas of version 2 allow you to use the Vista/Win7 bootloader to |
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chainload grub and so boot linux. Its pretty easy to setup aswell as all you |
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do is tell it to add an entry to your bootloader and then direct it to your |
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/boot partition that has grub installed. |
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Of course its not as pretty as some of the things you can do in grub/grub2, |
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but it does work. |
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The only downside is that you need to register on their forums in order to |
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download the latest betas :( |
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- Nick |
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