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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7
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Thanks Nick,
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 09:53:27 Nick Cunningham wrote:
> Take a look at EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3D642
> The latest betas of version 2 allow you to use the Vista/Win7 bootloader =
to
> chainload grub and so boot linux. Its pretty easy to setup aswell as all
> you do is tell it to add an entry to your bootloader and then direct it =
to
> your /boot partition that has grub installed.
> Of course its not as pretty as some of the things you can do in grub/grub=
2,
> but it does work.
>=20
> The only downside is that you need to register on their forums in order to
> download the latest betas :(
=2E.. or, perhaps use BCDedit?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709667(WS.10).aspx
Time allowing I'll have a go at installing Gentoo this weekend and report=20
back. I think that it'll be a straight forward exercise of using dd to cop=
y=20
the Gentoo partition boot record (where I will have installed GRUB) to a fi=
le=20
and then save this file in Windows 7 and point to it from C:\boot\bcd. The=
=20
latter seems to be the Windows 7 equivalent to WinXP's boot.ini. Anyway, I=
=20
better stop here before someone reading this M/L think they've come across =
a=20
Microsoft conspiracy, or even worse the M/L server got infected! :-))
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Regards,
Mick
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