From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:45:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002152345.35419.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100213171351.GA15098@math.princeton.edu>
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On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote:
> 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-har
> mony 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.
Thank you both for your replies. If I were to choose GRUB to chainload W7
what should I point it to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the
main W7 OS partition 3?
If I were to use W7's NTLDR equivalent - whatever this technology might be -
will I be able to chainload GRUB from it?
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-15 23:45 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
2010-02-15 23:45 ` Mick [this message]
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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