From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Im3Xv-000269-S3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:31:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9S8Sw98023918; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:28:58 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.149.33.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9S8SvrS023913 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:28:58 GMT Received: from wstn.prhnet (prh.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.251.123]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DD42DCE8B for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:28:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Load NTLDR from GRUB? Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:22:59 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <5c4f3a5c0710271514o35d0bd57n2d877c3cfb0d6297@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5c4f3a5c0710271514o35d0bd57n2d877c3cfb0d6297@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710280822.59398.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 1db9683e-47fa-4130-8bfe-8ffa4fbbb617 X-Archives-Hash: eb1453c0691cfe3b7734309e9649ac6d 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. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list