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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I8ON5-0000FX-01 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:39:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6AMcc4b000381; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:38:38 GMT Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [63.240.77.84]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6AMYUTn028037 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:34:30 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx ([24.245.14.14]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20070710223428014004v5fte>; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:34:28 +0000 Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97CF52A5A2 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:34:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:34:28 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition Message-ID: <20070710173428.7ec59506@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20070710090030.M86761@xvalheru.org> References: <20070703235608.M73751@xvalheru.org> <20070704055126.M67276@xvalheru.org> <20070704085107.0cc5fda9@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200707042317.51771.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20070710090030.M86761@xvalheru.org> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a3b7d4d7-3beb-4e98-b08a-8800962455b3 X-Archives-Hash: 19f537b21c8c1f3ed4be908ff2d3785c On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:09:07 +0200 "pat" wrote: > Some information what I've used to remove GRUB from MBR. In windows > (don't beat me) there are tools 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' and Ive used > them. You could try 'fdisk /mbr' from windows command line. That should replace your MBR with one which simply passess boot process off to the active partition, which is -- i believe -- how windows does it. But, read on. > Probably last question: When I've tried to set the recovery partition > 'active' in fdisk, the system still boots from the GRUB and not from > the 'active' partition ... I think I've did it wrong, did I? The boot process from a hard drive looks something like Power button -> BIOS -> mbr boot -> partition boot -> OS init. chances are that GRUB is on the mbr so the recovery partition's boot record is never used. Have you considered using GRUB to boot the partition like you would a windows partition? that would look something like | # boot this partition's boot record | rootnoverify (hd0,2) # corresponds to 1st hard drive ,3rd partition. | # set to your recovery partition instead. | makeactive | chainloader +1 that, I think, will do about the same thing as 'fdisk /mbr' from windoze but avoids the hosing of GRUB, which is actually a wonderfully flexible and useful bootloader compared to the 'active partition' scheme of windoze. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list