Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical

[brettholcomb]

You may have to use grub or lilo to rewrite the boot record as Windows stomps on it.

> 
> From: Masood Ahmed <coolmasood@gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/03/02 Thu PM 03:12:58 EST
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives
> 
> "Marco Calviani" <marco.calviani@gmail.com> writes:
> >    i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if
> > there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on
> > the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first
> > one, and, if yes, how to perform this task.
> 
> You can do it. Although I have not tried it, i think you can install 
> windows XP as usual on the second drive, then edit the menu.lst file
> and add the following entry..
> 
> title=Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> Again i have not tried this, if I'm wrong please point it out..
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