Hi, A friend asked about trying out Linux. After doing a bit of reading and looking at the Gentoo site he wanted to try Gentoo so I said I'd help install it o his Windows box. The situation that I've not faced in a long time, if ever, is that he has an existing Windows installation on the first half of the drive. The partition is standard Win-XP NTSF. I do not know how to load grub on this machine.
1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF. 2) Do I put grub on the Gentoo boot partition and then do the standard chain load to Win XP? If this is the case then which partitions should be marked as bootable? 3) Put grub in the MBR and point it at the Gentoo boot partition to find grub.conf? This seems possible. If I do this and it gets messed up, what do I need from Windows to put M$'s boot loader back in the MBR and let it boot normally? 4) Something else? I looked around for a Gentoo Wiki but they seem to all be written as if Windows is on a second drive. I couldn't find this case. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
