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 1NhAdX-0001xq-IM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:45:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED4D6E063C; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com (mail-ew0-f216.google.com [209.85.219.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A402EE063C for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so6248308ewy.29 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:45:39 -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:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=xgaDuER7LJnqOq5OC9b4uWyz0oNk4NkqI0oPcq4x20A=; b=hKNAn+gPGCp+WPI5YK75SsEJ/tZlzr+Khj04XDAQxzafwN1d2+JRLHrNPHTJ6dvGZk B2WHNaFwKUX1b8+u+5jwJndDN5GDJtz4t1w9/esB5oranM6VBlB9nGFi8j1cR+UM5cnA i8A0H4Pzwez0ohOP3jkttHzhfUXwYyr8+SUe8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=R1Ok0u1cOXDHrrUN5lIKN8ug259GmFzzU3kjwuW3H5l5TdTamokwW0gKemUmfpoNxd 4xqNIbTek22ZauibE23qGTryof4aYOCx/72YXjDW6YPZgUEHy9TPNVHOQP61yM9lxmkE T2P6Y22mg8XccwOsPtJaf+NV0HWHAIgXo0hF8= Received: by 10.213.8.6 with SMTP id f6mr3251095ebf.93.1266277538906; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm16446996eya.27.2010.02.15.15.45.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:45:37 -0800 (PST) From: Mick 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <201002131509.50360.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20100213171351.GA15098@math.princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20100213171351.GA15098@math.princeton.edu> 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="nextPart1457115.FtvKiF3xEZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002152345.35419.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e3d61d4b-7344-48ee-a2bd-557a66dba197 X-Archives-Hash: b5e6592040ee15d6d9982c653f2bf186 --nextPart1457115.FtvKiF3xEZ Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. T= he > > 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? >=20 > Take a look at this > http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-h= ar > mony Apparently you can now re-size online partitions with Windows 7 > itself. >=20 > 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= =20 what should I point it to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or = the=20 main W7 OS partition 3? If I were to use W7's NTLDR equivalent - whatever this technology might be = =2D=20 will I be able to chainload GRUB from it? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1457115.FtvKiF3xEZ 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkt53J8ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbdYACgwdD95Z8P+jxq7Z9q2CvJCUJF IJwAoM9HMv4hxbRD295V/SIHxCPuNUjS =WaBX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1457115.FtvKiF3xEZ--