Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-11 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:09, pat wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:17:50 +0100, Mick wrote On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello pat, Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:09:07 +0200 pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some information what I've used to remove GRUB from MBR. In windows (don't beat me) there are tools 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' and Ive used them. You could try 'fdisk /mbr' from windows command line. That should replace your MBR with

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-04 Thread pat
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:14:58 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote pat wrote: I've used the fdisk, but it's not enough. Could someone suggest a tool, which can help me to select bootable partition? I'm not clear on this - did you type 'a' and select the recovery partition to make it bootable? And

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-04 Thread pat
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:45:06 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote pat wrote: it's not enough. Could someone suggest a tool, which can help me to select bootable partition? What do you mean by select bootable partition? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Hi, Boot from this partition without

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello pat, Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition bootable and remove all other partitions including /boot with GRUB configuration - and when the /boot is removed then there's not possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello pat, Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition bootable and remove all other partitions including /boot with GRUB configuration -

[gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-03 Thread pat
Hello, I have real problem :-( On my laptop I have Gentoo and windows. At work I use windows at home Gentoo. Now is the time to reinstall windows from the recovery partition which is at end of the disk. I'm booting with GRUB which is in MBR. So, in GRUB I have record for boot from recovery, but

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-03 Thread Randy Barlow
pat wrote: I've used the fdisk, but it's not enough. Could someone suggest a tool, which can help me to select bootable partition? I'm not clear on this - did you type 'a' and select the recovery partition to make it bootable? And did you set up grub to boot from that partition? You

Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-03 Thread Norberto Bensa
pat wrote: it's not enough. Could someone suggest a tool, which can help me to select bootable partition? What do you mean by select bootable partition? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list