From: Willie Wong <wwong@Math.Princeton.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:13:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100213171351.GA15098@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002131509.50360.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The
> third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is
> flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) tools.
> I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back up partition and is
> meant to be used to restore the OS in the third partition. This confuses me a
> bit - shouldn't the third partition which houses the OS be flagged as bootable
> instead?
Take a look at this
http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-harmony
Apparently you can now re-size online partitions with Windows 7 itself.
Google also suggests you can chainload Windows 7 in the usual way using
grub.
W
--
Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-13 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-13 15:09 [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7 Mick
2010-02-13 17:13 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2010-02-15 23:45 ` Mick
2010-02-17 1:12 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-17 6:58 ` Mick
2010-02-17 10:31 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-28 23:51 ` Mick
2010-03-01 1:46 ` Willie Wong
2010-03-01 15:04 ` Peter Ruskin
2010-03-01 18:09 ` Mick
2010-03-02 14:31 ` Mick
2010-03-02 23:31 ` Peter Ruskin
2010-03-05 20:03 ` Mick
2010-02-17 12:28 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-18 0:16 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-17 9:53 ` Nick Cunningham
2010-02-17 22:23 ` Mick
2010-02-13 23:42 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
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