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 1ECsWG-0002XS-7Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 05:30:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j875QUsM009483; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:26:30 GMT Received: from grunt3.ihug.co.nz (grunt3.ihug.co.nz [203.109.254.43]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j875MqM7013347 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:22:53 GMT Received: from 203-118-189-78.bliink.ihug.co.nz (otherland2) [203.118.189.78] by grunt3.ihug.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ECsRr-000060-00; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:26:16 +1200 From: Glenn Enright To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 05:27:55 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <5bdc1c8b0509062140bea5bc6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0509062140bea5bc6@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: <200509070527.55981.elinar@ihug.co.nz> X-Archives-Salt: 4f8677db-dcfe-4831-baa5-c68a0e8565ac X-Archives-Hash: 47ee5058184588b6bd502fc10743cb59 On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:40, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > OK, the target machine is now rebuilt. I decided since I had to > rebuild both WinXP and Gentoo that I'd just put them on the same hard > drive. The Gentoo install is complete right up to the point where I > run grub and write it somewhere and I want to make sure I understand > the right way to do this. > > The disk layout is like this > > (MBR) - Win XP > /dev/hda1 - Win XP > /dev/hda2 - extended partition > /dev/hda5 - /boot > /dev/hda6 - swap > /dev/hda7 - / > /dev/hda8 - /home > > Now, my question, where do I write grub? I believe it's into the > MBR and not into partition 1, correct? If so I'd use: > > grub > > grub> root (hd0,4) > grub> setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in the MBR) > grub> quit > Youve got the right idea, but hd0,4 is the logical holder for your linux partitions, not the boot partition that holds the grub files. So root is your /boot partition, ie hd0,5. All this information can be found in your info files for grub, and by using your method, section 3.2 (Installing Grub Natively) -- Breaking up Microsoft isn't enough. What the court needs to do is start breaking kneecaps. -- The BSD Daemon, when asked by Humorix for his reaction to the proposed Microsoft two-way split -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list