[gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
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? AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like grub-install /dev/hda1 just will not work. Only something like grub-install /dev/hda will do. LILO could be installed into some partition's boot-sector. I loved it - but GRUB doesn't like that idea. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 02:10 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: 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? AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like grub-install /dev/hda1 just will not work. Only something like grub-install /dev/hda will do. LILO could be installed into some partition's boot-sector. I loved it - but GRUB doesn't like that idea. The other day I installed grub on /dev/hdc3 on my wife's computer. It's worked great so far... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adding Gentoo to Win-XP/NTSF machine
On 8/26/06, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? AFAIK, grub can only be put into the MBR of a disk. anything like grub-install /dev/hda1 just will not work. Only something like grub-install /dev/hda will do. LILO could be installed into some partition's boot-sector. I loved it - but GRUB doesn't like that idea. Hi Sven, No, it does work. I hgave one machine with Fedora's grub in the MBR. One choice it had was to jump to grub in a partition so you got a second set of boot options based on what hot-plug drive was installed. It worked fine. I did my first test of trying to use the NTLDR. It did attempt to load the grub menu but then the grub boot fails, probably because I have built a bad kernel or something. I think that this Windows NTLDR method may end up being sort of difficult to get the machine working the first time, but very reasonable later.. We'll see. Thanks, Mark Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
