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From: Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Load NTLDR from GRUB?
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:22:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710280822.59398.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c4f3a5c0710271514o35d0bd57n2d877c3cfb0d6297@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 27 Oct 2007, Julien Cassette wrote:
> Hello,
> I needed to install Windows XP on a logical partition, but I found that
> it can't boot from such a partition because NTLDR needs to be installed
> on a primary one.
> So I set up the following partition scheme:
>   /dev/sda1 ext3 Gentoo root
>   /dev/sda2 ntfs NTLDR
>   /dev/sda4 Extended
>     /dev/sda5 ext2 Gentoo portage
>     /dev/sda6 swap Gentoo swap
>     /dev/sda7 ext3 Gentoo home
>     /dev/sda8 ntfs Windows XP
>
> Win xp installed and booted without problem

This is interesting. I've had various versions of Windows on various 
machines over the years and I've never managed to get grub to start Windows 
unless Windows was on the first primary partition. Yet in your case no part 
of Windows is on the first primary partition. What's your secret? Or has 
the latest version of grub been fixed in this respect?

> but now that I need to restore GRUB, I am wondering if I need to
> write "root (hd0,1)" or "root (hd0,7)" into the grub.conf to boot windows.



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Peter.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-28  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27 22:14 [gentoo-amd64] Load NTLDR from GRUB? Julien Cassette
2007-10-27 22:30 ` Beso
2007-10-28  8:22 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2007-10-28  9:20   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-10-28 10:05     ` Peter Humphrey
2007-10-28 10:57       ` Beso
2007-10-28 11:24         ` Thierry de Coulon
2007-10-28 11:30           ` Beso
2007-10-28 11:41             ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-10-28 13:29               ` Beso
2007-10-28 11:44           ` Peter Humphrey
2007-10-28 12:00             ` Mathieu Seigneurin
2007-10-28 13:55               ` Duncan
2007-10-28 12:38             ` Thierry de Coulon
2007-10-30  8:55             ` Peter Humphrey
2007-10-30  9:53               ` Beso
2007-10-28 10:13     ` Peter Humphrey
2007-10-28 14:56       ` Duncan

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