From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:03:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707130804.08554.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070712081948.M57940@xvalheru.org>
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On Thursday 12 July 2007 09:20, pat wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:51:30 +0100, Mick wrote
> > fixmbr will replace GRUB's boot code in the mbr with ntldr's (WinXP)
> > . fixboot will replace the partition boot sector code with WinXP's.
> > You'll need to run the former on the drive and the latter on the
> > partition in which the WinXP installation existed. Not sure if you
> > would need to run fixboot on your recovery partition, but I don't
> > know how your 'recovery partition' works. Does it contain a
> > complete image of your WinXP partition? Usually, the conventional
> > WinXP recovery partition only contains certain libs & configuration
> > files, not a complete installation.
>
> This one contains full WinXP install ... :-\
In the future you may want to have a look at partimage. I always create an
image after I install MS Windows on a machine. I set passwds, run all MS
Windows upgrades, shut down all unnecessary services, close open ports,
configure the firewall, install any drivers and then burn an image which is
my back-2-basics backup. I always keep users' data files on separate
partition(s) and these are backed up separately. Should things go south in
the future, I format the partition and upload the image to it. Then it's
simply a matter of reinstalling applications. In this way, I do not have to
a)have MS Windows on the first partition, or even the first disk; b)hose my
Gentoo installation because MS Windows proprietary recovery solutions are
disrespectful of any other OS, or prior installation; c)hose Grub which is
significantly superior to NTLDR; d)mess up previous MS Windows OS
installations (e.g. DOS, Win98, Win2K) because WinXP overwrites their boot
partition and bootfiles.
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-13 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-04 0:06 [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition pat
2007-07-04 1:45 ` Norberto Bensa
2007-07-04 6:00 ` pat
2007-07-04 2:14 ` Randy Barlow
2007-07-04 5:55 ` pat
2007-07-04 7:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-07-04 22:17 ` Mick
2007-07-10 9:09 ` [SOLVED] " pat
2007-07-10 18:51 ` Mick
2007-07-12 8:20 ` pat
2007-07-13 7:03 ` Mick [this message]
2007-07-10 22:34 ` Dan Farrell
2007-07-12 8:19 ` pat
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