From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECtz4-0003yu-In for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:04:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j876xD1n020165; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:59:13 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j876r6lF030048 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 06:53:06 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Sep 2005 06:56:33 -0000 Received: from 84-72-130-34.dclient.hispeed.ch (EHLO [127.0.0.1]) [84.72.130.34] by mail.gmx.net (mp005) with SMTP; 07 Sep 2005 08:56:33 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1076219 Message-ID: <431E8F1F.5030806@gmx.ch> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:56:31 +0200 From: Christoph Gysin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050726) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP References: <5bdc1c8b0509062140bea5bc6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0509062140bea5bc6@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: cad70d0c-69e4-4f30-afac-33ca27c1ce69 X-Archives-Hash: 5e4f6b4d6ab20f907365e7d1910baacb Mark Knecht wrote: > The disk layout is like this > > (MBR) - Win XP > /dev/hda1 - Win XP > /dev/hda2 - extended partition > /dev/hda5 - /boot > /dev/hda6 - swap > /dev/hda7 - / > /dev/hda8 - /home > > Now, my question, where do I write grub? I believe it's into the > MBR and not into partition 1, correct? If so I'd use: > > grub > > grub> root (hd0,4) > grub> setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in the MBR) > grub> quit > > Is this correct? Not quite. At least you got the confusing numbering scheme right ;-) (hd0,4) would be your / partition. But grub expects the partition containing the grub installation files, which are located on /boot so it should be (hd0,2) Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list