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 1NmA3a-0005u3-S0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:09:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 342ABE0B16; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f211.google.com (mail-bw0-f211.google.com [209.85.218.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E4FE0B16 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so811172bwz.29 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:09:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vKjGxEYODgwbVeJk/9sMeEG823MmZPHMVpa9B+sUqgg=; b=gMGJzXEkw6DjTrEFjVQ8E38vWcf9PU1UgoOkLiq7kXV3xkucH9QcclygbG5v/ElIgr 7U5q9XgBGHvXd0oulgs9zn7T6EDr34VQfNt8g7+uoo7vi6RIArww8rd04Zqy/bcGMazO l+E9ldU42Tc08fw46q01E7CM0CUKP2bxo7f9I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gMulCyS1zcbw6MiGMEgBzZKL7bwQgRJc75hZPYw6dMBsXcP7zurBL4T9FmaYp/vjVC Thao9TcdEHW8ibTi7frrjNWKvMXQWrCKaFJnn++Vz+HVcEvHUogXlJ1ZF8P9kFOJDV/6 R9REiW7sCYrpZB3TdY1LqZ+cCX9sJcQ1QHE+w= 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 Received: by 10.204.15.4 with SMTP id i4mr3350783bka.21.1267466952065; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:09:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201003011504.36971.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> References: <201002131509.50360.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20100217103116.GA29205@math.princeton.edu> <358eca8f1002281551x4030c222rdaee05756bb00abd@mail.gmail.com> <201003011504.36971.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:09:11 +0000 Message-ID: <358eca8f1003011009n1043011fo5cb31bf05a61eef@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting Dell with Windows 7 From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: b21260b5-a6e3-4a05-b0c1-12765d3ca92d X-Archives-Hash: e07715974a971e4c1856043af76c8cc2 On 1 March 2010 15:04, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 28 February 2010 23:51:21 Mick wrote: >> I have now succeeded at achieving what I wanted: =A0to 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. =A0I 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. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.2_rc63 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0kernel-= 2.6.32-gentoo-r5 > AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 gcc(Gentoo: 4.4.3= ) > KDE: 3.5.10 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0 =A0 Qt: 3.3.8b > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > --=20 Regards, Mick