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 1NhdsG-0006BZ-8R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:59:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98FDCE07EB; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:58:33 +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 5892BE07EB for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so7885305ewy.29 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:58:32 -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=OLm9USPIwaZWY+5LGtaiBCZxeaMITjCcWnQHBPghAcs=; b=dQN9x3f6WtUJop7PTbkliH4KTNk9lUg724hSP9XOKEY3sphw0LAAYIgJKjId4wsymQ 2MVJ8Wz5RrxzLkjurutiD7X6Mdz/9ijjeiEsAzRubxvDcNlnGGgyiER0T4i1u5k7OBtp JvSeMnRJ+qsHqtSS3R++DJrKaW/Pq2v9ygBZk= 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=KRXGxr8OO/9NdlXcb9iAl2yvuVSUNFzhhRIxhJ0yOemSCo7r43H3ys6n1ti+H+dTOX mrSeWUOgW7uSsLgVVQLhwdRYXmksLHRRpBB31wXnaY4z7Kvps4Zhn0qi31qdQsTwRyyk YjEMyBHqrWJFlqH96RP4QHK/CummaiNn7WoxU= Received: by 10.213.50.1 with SMTP id x1mr4293125ebf.62.1266389912643; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:58:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm72427eyb.34.2010.02.16.22.58.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:58:31 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:58:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <201002131509.50360.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201002152345.35419.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201002170112.08391.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201002170112.08391.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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="nextPart5113023.0nuBWX68qg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002170658.29131.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3cc3a567-b935-4bda-ac08-97cfb63e2491 X-Archives-Hash: d3aa28b9e47b5299f56f5775c7806806 --nextPart5113023.0nuBWX68qg Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote: > > If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it > > to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main W7 OS > > partition 3? >=20 > The one with W7 on it, I should have thought, as that's the one you want > to start. Why not just try it? And when you find out which partition is > which, why not set the bootable flag on the right one? I.e. the one with > grub in it. I am not sure that I would want to do this. I recall that MSWindows used t= o=20 be and it possible still is rather sensitive with needing the boot flag on = its=20 partition. Linux on the other hand is a more advanced OS which does not ca= re=20 where the boot flag is. The NTLDR bootloader is no more since Vista. A different boot loading=20 arrangement exists and I am not sure of its behaviour. > > If I were to use W7's NTLDR equivalent [...] [would] I be able to > > chainload GRUB from it? >=20 > I assume you mean "to" it. (I have a nasty, ever-growing suspicion that > Americans not only don't know their tenses, but they think backwards - > either that or I do.) :-) Nope. I mean use the Windows 7 bootloader as the primary bootloader to=20 chainload GRUB from the Gentoo partition. The MSWindows stays in the MBR a= s=20 it is now, the GRUB is installed in the Gentoo /boot partition. MSWindows= =20 bootloader chainloads GRUB. > Again, the answer's a lemon - suck it and see. >=20 > No offence intended. Thanks, none received. I am not American. ;-) PS. Not that this somehow makes my English good, or that I share your view= on=20 American grammar. I have heard worse English being spoken in places like e= =2Eg.=20 Northampton England, than any places that I happened to have visited in the= =20 US. :-)) PPS. I am making some progress with this (at least in terms of googling) a= nd=20 will report back as soon as I have achieved this MSWindows --> chainloading= -- > Gentoo thing. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart5113023.0nuBWX68qg 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) iEYEABECAAYFAkt7k5QACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZDCgCghjQ4oW3E1BFV1xfQAjQmRne+ Lo4AoJWOO4NtzleVJ37mT+JPZVsbp6Fd =Ntsj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5113023.0nuBWX68qg--