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 1I8d46-0004uY-7y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:21:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6BEIvAZ016295; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:18:57 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6BEAQVv003049 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:10:27 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so130497ugf for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:10:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=btYvW/2BBaFCtJeXPLBaUalCOyX+UhSXix+aq9IxUkutEWE9SmSFawiFW7G3+e0ygG1QtwK0FQ12u9+nQIuwDzeJgRhTFrD+dl6Pp5qcM0RJzTGekYiM58Ow1LWQ6VFXBYfEQ5vQ7aJR78BhVNEVcgliK79VemlQjSIYvta94hw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=lDPofBP3jUZuWsPsV0IlRrK2Y93x0izw0XqHUceTuwrYgY44dASFdFIOo5Us8lwz4GeM1DYCMY30Kui0+ZorR/oRHk7BQ+YEpERDOBg1pQuLvr/nBz1S0U7Dhvy4tkd96InTr6rcHajciOTamqnFkyCWOT33+fRCtvqq4FAcbyY= Received: by 10.67.118.20 with SMTP id v20mr457729ugm.1184163026550; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy ( [86.156.30.195]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m1sm628319uge.2007.07.11.07.10.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:10:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:51:30 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070703235608.M73751@xvalheru.org> <200707042317.51771.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20070710090030.M86761@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <20070710090030.M86761@xvalheru.org> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart9874198.EIoC2GrFgS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707101951.40511.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f69fd6f1-4871-470a-b7a2-917ded2e005f X-Archives-Hash: 05432d21faa517769606fe7330b49d3a --nextPart9874198.EIoC2GrFgS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:09, pat wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:17:50 +0100, Mick wrote > > > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Hello pat, > > > > > > > Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the bo= ot > > > > from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition > > > > bootable and remove all other partitions including /boot with GRUB > > > > configuration - and when the /boot is removed then there's not > > > > possible to use GRUB, because of the grub.conf, and that's why I ne= ed > > > > to set recovery partition bootable without GRUB. > > > > > > Set the partition to be bootable in cfdisk, before removing the Linux > > > partitions. > > > > fdisk, cfdisk, etc. will all set the bootable flag. The question is > > why do you need to remove a)grub, b)the /boot partition? Is your > > Windows recovery partition script expecting Windows to be the first > > partition on the disk and you have moved it since installation? > > > > Perhaps next time you'll use partimage with Gentoo to create a back > > up image of your Windows partition and so you will be able to > > restore it within 40 minutes or so, depending on the speed of your > > machine. > > Well, the recovery process requires whole disk space and "clear" MBR. Yes, > right now I've 'dd'ed fresh windows installation and next reinstall should > be really fast - expect 15 minutes instead of the whole day ;-) > > 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. > > 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? fixmbr will replace GRUB's boot code in the mbr with ntldr's (WinXP). fixb= oot=20 will replace the partition boot sector code with WinXP's. You'll need to r= un=20 the former on the drive and the latter on the partition in which the WinXP= =20 installation existed. Not sure if you would need to run fixboot on your=20 recovery partition, but I don't know how your 'recovery partition' works. = =20 Does it contain a complete image of your WinXP partition? Usually, the=20 conventional WinXP recovery partition only contains certain libs &=20 configuration files, not a complete installation. =20 > Thanks to all for help. You're welcome. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart9874198.EIoC2GrFgS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGk9U05Fp0QerLYPcRAq3gAJwLwoGIurfYqHaD240wXyfWq4SFQACgiQDK s4dzoADEtf72kior8HnhMjQ= =zjDv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9874198.EIoC2GrFgS-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list