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 1I8u1C-00012R-Al for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:27:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6C8P8jj013829; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:25:08 GMT Received: from mail.pipni.cz (mail.pipni.cz [193.86.238.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6C8JAtl006652 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:19:10 GMT Received: from mail.pipni.cz ([193.86.238.3] helo=xvalheru.org) id 1I8ttD-0002mb-6q for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:19:08 +0200 From: "pat" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:19:06 +0200 Message-Id: <20070712081428.M77857@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <20070710173428.7ec59506@pascal.spore.ath.cx> References: <20070703235608.M73751@xvalheru.org> <20070704055126.M67276@xvalheru.org> <20070704085107.0cc5fda9@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200707042317.51771.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20070710090030.M86761@xvalheru.org> <20070710173428.7ec59506@pascal.spore.ath.cx> X-Mailer: OpenWebMail 2.52 20061019 X-OriginatingIP: 82.113.61.50 (pat@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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: c3da8799-ed99-41df-bfa5-b18b43e6fe44 X-Archives-Hash: 58ce9fd230545dbcc1f02dbbd3acc66e On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:34:28 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote > 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 Yes, I've booted recovery partition from the GRUB (using cfg below), but the recovery process replace whole disk with one big windows partition, so the GRUB "configuration" partition (partition with /boot/grub/grub.cfg) is removed and it doesn't update MBR to boot from active partition ... . Thanks. > | # 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