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 1NgLa9-00077O-KH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:15:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80B2AE07B9; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6754BE07B9 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NgLZ2-0000mj-3b for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:13:53 -0500 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1DHDpKD015461 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:13:51 -0500 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o1DHDpKb015458 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:13:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:13:51 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7 Message-ID: <20100213171351.GA15098@math.princeton.edu> References: <201002131509.50360.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201002131509.50360.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: c729be32-cb6d-4b62-ae65-4dc653d127f6 X-Archives-Hash: e891347ba805fda65249f874bf68a58f 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