On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:40 AM, JT Moree wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > >> Anyone have any words of wisdom or suggestions, perhaps alternatives >> that we are overlooking? We have glanced at G4U and G4L, but they >> seem to be pretty front ends to what we are currently doing with >> Knoppix. Or are we missing something? > > Wits is trying to do this with win2k and bob and I failed to get it to > work last weekend. We used partimage because --unlike dd--it does not > image empty space. So after restoring a 4 gig partition which was only > a 1.5G file into a larger partition all the data was fine. > > we used qtparted to resize the 4G partition up to the 9 gigs available. > > the problem was we could not get it to boot. The ntboot loader seemed > to be missing. I think the bootloader goes into the first sector of > the > windows partition. correct? perhaps partimage did not back that up. > There is an option called > * restore MBR from partition > but we're not sure what that does. I told bob to try it again and use > that option.
Even when using Windows, it is not strictly necessary to have the NT bootloader in the MBR. You could use GRUB and chainload- however, you do need *a* bootloader in the MBR. ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
