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* [gentoo-dev] question about grub
@ 2002-03-15 18:00 Ryan McLean
  2002-03-15 18:03 ` Matthew T. Jachimstal
  2002-03-15 18:35 ` Dan Armak
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ryan McLean @ 2002-03-15 18:00 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

Hello,

  I was reading your excellent installation documentation online, and I
ran into a question.  Near the end you're breaking down the commands for
grub, but you leave some information out that I would like to know:

# Below needed only for people who dual-boot
title=Windows NT Workstation
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1

  I'm unclear as to what the (hd0,5) are pointing to, is to say "boot of
off the FAT partition located at partition 5"?  Normally MS likes to
reside on the primary partition of the drive, so I just want clarification
on this.  For instance, if I have a dual boot, MS on the primary partition
and Gentoo's root at (sd0,3), then I would put root (sd0,1) under my
Windows boot section, correct?  And also, what does the chainloader +1
command do?  Thank you fo your time, I'm an old fan of lilo, but I have
been cosidering migrating to a newer bootloader :)

 - Ryan

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