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 4.43) id 1ECHmu-0004MO-LE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:17:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85ED5Ag009806; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:13:05 GMT Received: from smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.104]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85E8IAb002768 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 14:08:19 GMT Received: (qmail 16708 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2005 14:11:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (menola@sbcglobal.net@68.252.103.156 with plain) by smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Sep 2005 14:11:27 -0000 From: Joe Menola To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:11:34 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050905134235.JCG17147.ibm67aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> <5bdc1c8b050905065072acf659@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b050905065072acf659@mail.gmail.com> 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509050911.34702.menola@sbcglobal.net> X-Archives-Salt: 0f690412-6ba3-4872-835a-17e8b51caf51 X-Archives-Hash: 05cf8ef286b78767f60c2b955e78d35a On Monday September 5 2005 8:50 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks Brett. > > I did think that Windows cared where it's boot loader was and that it > had to be the first partition on the drive. Is that not true? > Windows bootloader needs to be on the first nfs/vfat partition on the boot drive and that partition must be "active/bootable". However, if using Grub you don't need Windows bootloader. ie: # Windows title Windows rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 This loads windows on hdb1 partition. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list