On Tuesday 02 March 2010 23:31:16 Peter Ruskin wrote:
Thanks for your help, Mick.
You're welcome. Sorry it took me some time to get to it:
Here's the bcdedit /v before I started:
C:\Windows\System32\bcdedit /v C:\bcdedit-orig.txt
It may be better to use the /export function to back up
On 1 March 2010 18:09, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin peter.rus...@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
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
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
On 17 February 2010 10:31, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:58:16AM +, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote:
If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:51:21PM +, Mick wrote:
Please do write a page on the Wiki (or at least a summary of what you
did to this mailing list). This will be some handy information to
have.
I have now succeeded at achieving what I wanted: to use the Windows 7
boot manager
On 15 February 2010 23:45, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote:
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote:
I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions.
The
third partition is where Windows 7
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:58:16AM +, Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote:
If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it
to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 06:58:16 Mick wrote:
Nope. I mean use the Windows 7 bootloader as the primary bootloader
to chainload GRUB from the Gentoo partition. The MSWindows stays in
the MBR as it is now, the GRUB is installed in the Gentoo /boot
partition. MSWindows bootloader
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
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 06:58:16 Mick wrote:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
No offence intended.
Thanks, none received. I am not American. ;-)
Well, having just gratuitously insulted an entire nation, I'd better be
on my best behaviour now in case I
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote:
If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it
to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main W7 OS
partition 3?
The one with W7 on it, I should have thought, as that's the one you want
to start. Why not just
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote:
If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it
to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main W7 OS
partition 3?
The one with W7 on it, I should
On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote:
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote:
I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The
third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is
flagged as bootable. The first
Hi All,
I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The
third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is
flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) tools.
I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +, Mick wrote:
I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The
third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is
flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery)
tools.
I am
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