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From: Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:14:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468B02A2.8020505@electronsweatshop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070703235608.M73751@xvalheru.org>

pat wrote:
> I've used the fdisk, but it's not enough. Could someone
> suggest a tool, which can help me to select bootable partition?

I'm not clear on this - did you type 'a' and select the recovery 
partition to make it bootable?  And did you set up grub to boot from 
that partition?  You probably need to use the chainloader command and 
such...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-04  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-04  0:06 [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition pat
2007-07-04  1:45 ` Norberto Bensa
2007-07-04  6:00   ` pat
2007-07-04  2:14 ` Randy Barlow [this message]
2007-07-04  5:55   ` pat
2007-07-04  7:51     ` Neil Bothwick
2007-07-04 22:17       ` Mick
2007-07-10  9:09         ` [SOLVED] " pat
2007-07-10 18:51           ` Mick
2007-07-12  8:20             ` pat
2007-07-13  7:03               ` Mick
2007-07-10 22:34           ` Dan Farrell
2007-07-12  8:19             ` pat

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