From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting windows 7, extended partitions, and the mbr
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:05:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006120905.44270.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu97hm9agpy.fsf@nyu.edu>
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On Tuesday 08 June 2010 12:47:37 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:52:14 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:10:06 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> >> I am now ready to install linux (and grub).
> >> Can I have all of linux on extended partitions? Something like
> >>
> >> 4. Extended
> >> 5. linux / (a logical partition inside the extended partition)
> >> 6. linux swap (another logical partition)
> >> 7. linux lvm2 partition (another logical partition)
> >> 8. linux small vfat partition (logical)
> >>
> >> I am mainly concerned about #5. Googling reveals that you can boot
> >> from a logical partition but the authors seem to recommend against
> >> it (without saying why in detail).
> >
> > Yes. My Linux only computers have no primary partitions, everything is on
> > logical partitions and has worked that way for many years without a
> > single issue.
>
> Thank you. That is just the endorsement I needed to go ahead.
The first partition has FreeDOS I think and a couple of recovery tools.
The second partition *should* have a backup of the MSWindows OS _and_ the boot
files. If you less about with it you will probably find that your MSWindows
OS does not boot anymore.
The third partition should have the MSWindows OS.
A quick check for finding a file called BCD and perhaps BCD_backup will show
you which is the boot partition.
If you are still under warranty you may want to install GRUB in your Linux
/boot partition not in the MBR and then copy an image of the boot partition
record from the Linux /boot partition to a file in your MSWindows OS
partition. I have detailed how to chainload Linux from MSWindows in this
thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/226452/focus=226560
HTH.
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-08 2:10 [gentoo-user] dual booting windows 7, extended partitions, and the mbr Allan Gottlieb
2010-06-08 9:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-06-08 11:47 ` Allan Gottlieb
2010-06-12 8:05 ` Mick [this message]
2010-06-14 2:09 ` Allan Gottlieb
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