From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NgKDv-0005Au-Nr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:48:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA70CE077A; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com (mail-fx0-f223.google.com [209.85.220.223]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A706E077A for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so3499686fxm.2 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:47:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=QW6Vg6f2tN8I6RSiE/HJdc9xybWUvTgpWs07NMbsvDQ=; b=SzqL8aULdpqoxMlZGw9CB4puFxFSj+JlOpXUUHDevSbz5K76UTboUN2tLkwVC3iWrg a2WxDOXe4JP0U4pjitevQIpVGVa/RlM88/s63fP8hy17IQZwEkw5EyLT6gm2IS5weVW0 Dc9WvZraRNP0so4ql02dB9luQn/kn6wSzqhok= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Se3VWVx1EkESWcOwEhunrx/uxp+203Mv4/W8dgjsph+Mp8WPANvWKaCsim6KEW49SI eVs0Kptta0moLNNtRY5GZpP0maSQo3cgC2pBR4X9iUHAqae3/4zFjICSDusUDgmHoY5X JCyZ7T+CdkarIRxCmKYYTc7AJXK4bd1/GWh4M= Received: by 10.102.211.9 with SMTP id j9mr1952952mug.130.1266076063658; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:47:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (83-215-53-147.saalf.dyn.salzburg-online.at [83.215.53.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j9sm24150057mue.36.2010.02.13.07.47.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:47:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7 Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:09:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3762699.KnCY6jlO0s"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002131509.50360.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5e332974-3922-4d65-9606-5d612184e53c X-Archives-Hash: 632726b3ae340c4c1f50f817d30f768e --nextPart3762699.KnCY6jlO0s Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The=20 third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is=20 flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) too= ls. =20 I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back up partition and= is=20 meant to be used to restore the OS in the third partition. This confuses m= e a=20 bit - shouldn't the third partition which houses the OS be flagged as boota= ble=20 instead? Anyway, I do not want to interfere with the Dell/MS Windows OS way of booti= ng,=20 at least until the warranty expires. What is the recommended way of dual=20 booting with Gentoo? In the past I have either installed GRUB in the MBR a= nd=20 chainloaded WinXP from there, or I have installed GRUB in the Linux partiti= on=20 boot record and then used NTLDR to chainload grub from the MSWindows=20 bootloader. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3762699.KnCY6jlO0s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkt2wL4ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLY87wCfUWjeA0FGXxBDzHgu/Hzxq2AL +CIAoN/vlBfNXZE3W2z4kKebmTQ/0l6e =Lsyj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3762699.KnCY6jlO0s--