From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Load NTLDR from GRUB?
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:41:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710281241.57646.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d257c3560710280430j71a9a992vab61885a133938f@mail.gmail.com>
On Sunday 28 October 2007, Beso wrote:
> yes, that should be the case, since winzoz installs its ntldr on the
> first readable partition. one time it has happened that i've
> reinstalled forgetting to hide the fat32 partition and winzoz
> installed on it the ntldr and i had to start it from that partition
> instead from the one it was installed. at least i was able in the end
> to free myself from it, since the apps that i've been using in winzoz
> are better and opensource in linux. :-)
Windows has the concept of "system partition" and "boot partition" (and,
for microsoft, they mean _exactly_ the opposite of what you may think).
Here is a good explanation:
http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/
The article is about multibooting, but it also does a good job of
explaining how windows boot.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-28 11:44 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
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 [this message]
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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