Thanks Nick, On Wednesday 17 February 2010 09:53:27 Nick Cunningham wrote:
> Take a look at EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=642 > The latest betas of version 2 allow you to use the Vista/Win7 bootloader to > chainload grub and so boot linux. Its pretty easy to setup aswell as all > you do is tell it to add an entry to your bootloader and then direct it to > your /boot partition that has grub installed. > Of course its not as pretty as some of the things you can do in grub/grub2, > but it does work. > > The only downside is that you need to register on their forums in order to > download the latest betas :( ... or, perhaps use BCDedit? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(WS.10).aspx Time allowing I'll have a go at installing Gentoo this weekend and report back. I think that it'll be a straight forward exercise of using dd to copy the Gentoo partition boot record (where I will have installed GRUB) to a file and then save this file in Windows 7 and point to it from C:\boot\bcd. The latter seems to be the Windows 7 equivalent to WinXP's boot.ini. Anyway, I better stop here before someone reading this M/L think they've come across a Microsoft conspiracy, or even worse the M/L server got infected! :-)) -- Regards, Mick
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