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