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 1I9ItR-0008QQ-1C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:01:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6DAxeMR013234; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:59:40 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 l6DAqo8i004799 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:52:50 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so589219ugf for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:52:50 -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=SjHUHXfmYqe2d6EQDRfoCjp/44koiBr85EyaBZJm9AScUKzSH7y2UMvt91q81CQTgn+HMmjattIb48xMK8dmV8rJCTUqOqDBT7B1C1qcBpiT73Ct6mgweUET0pOVnAyhajFVyI3n5yBSzgwVoHDBmVBduOMWZwMDxNqe47thDMg= 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=gTAj2dZGPLKG7mG0+qgudeVZk7Zr7MCa3ohKPli247hzEiV9DFCZAomDz13dAfzBZ32GjZm2Iu7dTRyciX68kwIk6JMDewPUpDQJ6e2F7QJHJYzpBTIVdxzX7szMyikwH9DQD79KP4pJmAeGwF8I+11kCWn68xba45ZZf5pxRsw= Received: by 10.67.32.6 with SMTP id k6mr1912225ugj.1184323603312; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:46:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy ( [86.156.30.195]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x33sm1290979ugc.2007.07.13.03.46.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:46:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070703235608.M73751@xvalheru.org> <200707101951.40511.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20070712081948.M57940@xvalheru.org> In-Reply-To: <20070712081948.M57940@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="nextPart1268012.VINrlYYK5a"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707130804.08554.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7f6b354f-4ce4-4793-bf03-b3dac2d3b7bb X-Archives-Hash: 973770f87f7e97658cd923042c294785 --nextPart1268012.VINrlYYK5a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 image after I install MS Windows on a machine. I set passwds, run all MS=20 Windows upgrades, shut down all unnecessary services, close open ports,=20 configure the firewall, install any drivers and then burn an image which is= =20 my back-2-basics backup. I always keep users' data files on separate=20 partition(s) and these are backed up separately. Should things go south in= =20 the future, I format the partition and upload the image to it. Then it's=20 simply a matter of reinstalling applications. In this way, I do not have t= o=20 a)have MS Windows on the first partition, or even the first disk; b)hose my= =20 Gentoo installation because MS Windows proprietary recovery solutions are=20 disrespectful of any other OS, or prior installation; c)hose Grub which is= =20 significantly superior to NTLDR; d)mess up previous MS Windows OS=20 installations (e.g. DOS, Win98, Win2K) because WinXP overwrites their boot= =20 partition and bootfiles. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1268012.VINrlYYK5a Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGlyPg5Fp0QerLYPcRAmNhAKCycX6xGaQBSn8ECgUqH+bBdlpIqwCfXhIh qgY2sqwPm2fL5beZIk+vu4Q= =Jd/f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1268012.VINrlYYK5a-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list