From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GeZ0x-0003KX-Su for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:25:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9UFM7kS003621; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:22:07 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.235]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9UFHakK019865 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:17:38 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i12so287996wra for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:17:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Y/NFw4Vhj1UrxQIkmIthjdqz5l7SEVrEV6bcY9uCTJ4qtx2iUrgTs8n5sMDROk6/EHyt5ltOqKmi3TShRpGcW+wjxxL3Vl0+nKqmVf6U3D8kI6zM5aso0iJcHsIa2NVcTjbb5HmTxEss9I2VQ6/a+utiCnWfpREeMtCtf6NQPGo= Received: by 10.65.219.4 with SMTP id w4mr4775354qbq; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:17:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.147.8 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:17:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1cc2dc830610300717k46316e15h22ff4d36eda2d0d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:17:34 -0300 From: "Allan Spagnol Comar" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dual boot: XP installed last? In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k9UFHakK019865 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k9UFM7ku003621 X-Archives-Salt: 6ca354c0-f7aa-4f90-b097-82f002c28899 X-Archives-Hash: 3d646d81c05fe5b49b14d4561ae4453c you just have to rerun grub setup. On 10/30/06, James wrote: > Hello, > > Usually when installing a portable, I leeave the windows and resize the= disk > space to set up gentoo as the second OS with grub...... > > > On one portable, The windows XP was a pain so I nuked it and got gentoo > working first. Now I need to install XP on the portable, but do not > wish XP to rewrite he MBR or any other such nefarious acts against the > gentoo partitions. > > Any suggestions as to best methods are most appreciated. Heres the part= info: > /dev/hda2 /boot reiserfs defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 0 1 > /dev/hda7 /usr/local reiserfs defaults 0 1 > > > hda1 is reserved for XP > > Here's the portion of grub.conf already set up for gentoo & XP: > > title=3D Linux 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.17-gentoo-r8 root=3D/dev/hda6 > > title=3DPossible Windows P1 > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > So I thinking after installing XP in the first partition, > all I have to do is execute/copy something to set up > the MBR so it sees grub.conf again, whilst XP is booted > up? > > > suggestions? > > James > > > > > I thinking I just need to copy this > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > --=20 An application asked: "Requires Windows 9x, NT4 or better", so I=B4ve installed Linux --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list