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From: Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Load NTLDR from GRUB?
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:30:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d257c3560710271530k17f9872dt69fc52668a5b7fd0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c4f3a5c0710271514o35d0bd57n2d877c3cfb0d6297@mail.gmail.com>

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to boot windows you have to write:
title Windows
root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
this will boot your winxp. you have to boot the ntldr partition which then
loads xp

as for the other linux distro use boot partition as root.

2007/10/28, Julien Cassette <hazynrg@gmail.com>:
>
> 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 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.
>
> Thanks for your help
> Julien.
>



-- 
dott. ing. beso

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-27 22:32 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 [this message]
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
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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