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 1Im6HM-0003xg-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:26:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9SBOBsL010201; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:24:11 GMT Received: from email.siw.ch (mururoa.siw.ch [217.197.213.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9SBOBGB010194 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:24:11 GMT Received: from tcoulon@decoulon.ch by email.siw.ch (MDaemon PRO v9.5.6) with ESMTP id md50006855746.msg for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:26:05 +0100 From: Thierry de Coulon Organization: Shadok To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Load NTLDR from GRUB? Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:24:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) References: <5c4f3a5c0710271514o35d0bd57n2d877c3cfb0d6297@mail.gmail.com> <200710281005.40431.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: 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="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710281224.06492.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> X-Authenticated-Sender: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-Lookup-Warning: EHLO lookup on tcoulon@decoulon.ch does not match 84.227.157.254 X-MDRemoteIP: 84.227.157.254 X-Return-Path: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-Envelope-From: tcoulon@decoulon.ch X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org X-MDAV-Processed: email.siw.ch, Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:26:06 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: 8b11993e-52c2-4ee1-99c0-8d0871497103 X-Archives-Hash: 3bc55ff989ee2f7d857e08ccb2389ee4 On Sunday 28 October 2007, Beso wrote: > > 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. > > i've had it work with grub on the second primary partition. > i used to have a first partition for windows, then a second for linux and > then the exted ones. after some system fixing i finished to have the / on > hda1, xp on hda2 and the other linux parts. now i'm fully happy to be with > /boot to hda1, / on hda2, swap /hda3 and the other parts on lvm2 after > removing winzoz. i had only needed a functioning wireless driver, but since > i wasn't able to get one in more than one year, in the end i finished > getting another wireless device. > anyway, on my system having windows on hda2 or even on extended didn't > bothered grub. I'd say the second partition is only a problem if the first is "seen" by Winblow - that is if it has any filesystem readable by it. Thierry -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list