Quoth [email protected]: > There's a long thread on alt.os.linux titled "Please recommend partitioning > schemes for Linux" that might interest you.
Thanks. I've read the first few postings and it looks like it will be useful. > Dire straits booting ANY bootable partition is real easy with grub1 and all > you need for that is any popular bootable linux installation optical disk or > live-cd/dvd. Or just an old grub boot floppy. The thing is to get to a linux > command line prompt and launch grub. Yes, I see what you're saying. If I can get to the grub prompt I can pretty much boot anything I like from there. > [...] with grub1 if partition #2 is an otherwise autonomous bootable windows > partition I'm not sure if partition #2 is an 'autonomous bootable Windows partition': DRIVE - FS - DESCRIPTION (SIZE) - FLAG /dev/sda1 - NTFS - Windows boot partition (200 MiB) - boot /dev/sda2 - NTFS - Main Windows partition (422 GiB) - Only the first partition (containing the Windows bootloader?) is bootable according to the flags. > grub > root (hd0,1) [observe filesystem recognized] > grub > hide (hd0,0) [unconditionally hide any #1 windows partition] > grub > hide (hd0,2) [unconditionally hide any #3 windows partition] > grub > unhide (hd0,1) [unconditionally unhide the #1 partition] > grub > rootnoverify (hd0,1) > grub > makeactive > grub > chainloader +1 > grub > boot Interesting. Thanks. > Note that humans don't start counting by raising the thumb and saying "zero". > grub2 uses human partition numbering, but still not so for drives :-) Noted. > for partition #2 with grub2 it might be like > set root=(hd0,2) > chainloader (hd0,2)+1 > boot Thanks again. > but validate that first, I'm very new to grub2 Noted. > For a linux partition (grub1 again, partition #12) > root (hd0,11) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda12 splash=0 3 > initrd /boot/initrd > boot Not sure I'll create that many partitions :) Sebastian -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
