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From: Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: Load NTLDR from GRUB?
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:05:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710281005.40431.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2007.10.28.09.20.47@cox.net>

On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Duncan wrote:

> By the time I switched to GRUB, I was off of MS/proprietaryware forever
> (or at least until it's no longer proprietary- aka slaveryware)

So what is your qualification for pronouncing on it?

> What MS OSs *DO* seem to require is that the boot partition be a primary
> partition, that is, one of the first four, not a logical partition (>4)
> in a secondary partition.

I've already told you that this is not true. IT DOES NOT WORK on the second 
primary partition. This is a known problem with grub.

[remainder snipped unread]

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Peter.
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-28 10:08 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
2007-10-28  9:20   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-10-28 10:05     ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
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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