From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:09:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <358eca8f1003011009n1043011fo5cb31bf05a61eef@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003011504.36971.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>
On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 28 February 2010 23:51:21 Mick wrote:
>> I have now succeeded at achieving what I wanted: to use the
>> Windows 7 boot manager (bootmgr.exe) which is the successor to
>> NTLDR to chainload GRUB from it and so leave the Windows
>> installation intact (at least until the warranty expires) ;-)
[snip ...]
> Thanks for the howto, Mick. I followed it on my Windows Vista Home
> Premium 64; got "The operation completed successfully" all the way
> through, but on reboot I don't get a boot menu.
Can you please post your partition table (cfdisk, or parted will do),
let me know which is your Gentoo /boot partition if it is not obvious
and the drive letters as understood by Vista when it is running. A
screenshot of gparted will help (email off list to keep the bandwidth
down) because it also shows the Labels.
> This doesn't matter much to me at the moment, as I use Acronis OSS
> Selector for boot manager, but this doesn't work on Windows 7, so
> my free update to Windows 7 is gathering dust.
As long as the upgrade to Windows 7 does not mess up the MS boot
partition then achieving this in Vista will be a good dry run for when
you install Windows 7. However, I am not sure that you will be able
to achieve this test run while Acronis is managing your boot session.
My method implies that you use the native MSWindows boot manager.
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> Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc63 kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r5
> AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor gcc(Gentoo: 4.4.3)
> KDE: 3.5.10 Qt: 3.3.8b
> ========================================================================
>
>
--
Regards,
Mick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-01 18:09 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
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 [this message]
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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