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 wrote:
> On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin 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 don't get a boot menu.
>
> Can you please post
On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin 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
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 17 February 2010 10:31, Willie Wong 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 point it
>> >
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
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:
> 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 chai
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
On 15 February 2010 23:45, Mick 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 resides, while the
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
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 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
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 a
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