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 1Ptl0N-0004OT-Dn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:06:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81E121C089; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E0B1C089 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15469209F6 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:04:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:04:36 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=ce62NVOc8DYMj4Z5wKUpHV+GLBY=; b=tcWGfDrhKfmypcygzWtAlVQKHDuK5aY2dp6/IaH+tUrXeuO0N0VqS9m/RXFuBcd3xbKEUuwSmdax54wzt76JwfRdLfwLyag1jL1XEH/NQiK8S6a2T1tMaWQDzuFD0gRdm8M+UM0FcLazDD+IDr+VbtS4o8uvXLNUzKHwcGC0TrQ= X-Sasl-enc: hZGhz511TpIECjEYqa7iIgRPdtpl0LpcJtZyh0F3EPiQ 1298829873 Received: from [192.168.5.18] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62871400C74 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:04:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4D6A922A.70505@binarywings.net> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:04:26 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110219 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Boot Partitions References: <4D6A6756.9050603@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig722BB9700DCF85D8FA0182E9" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: eba8315061b80415090c77f1825d501a This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig722BB9700DCF85D8FA0182E9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 27.02.2011 17:02, schrieb Petri Rosenstr=C3=B6m: > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM, dhk wrote: >> I have a new laptop that I need to set up for dual booting. As much a= s >> I despise Microsoft, I have to use it for certain things. Such as som= e >> obscure peripherals, like my slide photo scanner, it doesn't support >> Linux and TD Ameritrade's streaming Java tools don't work the same as = on >> Linux. Until corporation's smarten up Microsoft will be a problem. >> >> The setup for dual booting seem pretty straight forward. Install >> windows first, then Linux, and modify the boot loader. However, I hav= e >> a couple of question and observations. >> >> First, the observations. I tried to partition my disk with fdisk the >> way I wanted. It had the usual Linux partitions and a partition that = I >> was going to use for Window 7. I wanted to make this an LVM2 partitio= n, >> but that didn't work; I guess that was too ambitious. Then I just mad= e >> it an ordinary static HPFS/NTFS partition on /dev/sda5. When installi= ng >> Windows 7 it wouldn't install on that partition. I deleted all the >> partitions and just installed it on the first 50Gigs of the disk. >> >> Second, the questions. The Windows 7 install on the first 50Gigs of t= he >> disk needed to created two partitions. The first was a very small boo= t >> partition that I increased to 128Megs, and the second is the rest of >> Windows 7. Now when I boot to the livecd to partition the rest of the= >> disk for Gentoo fdisk says "Partition 1 does not end on a cylinder >> boundary." Is this a problem? The other big question is: what do I = do > Dunno, it might be that win7 changed the amount of heads/sectors that > could give that notice from fdisk. I would not be to worrified about > it (Installing windows would be more horrifying). If you have a > traditional hd then the worst thing I think might be that reads/writes > would be slower. >=20 If I'm not mistaken, this alignment is actually a good thing. It is related to the transition from 512 B blocks to 4 kB and also helps alignments for SSDs. In this regard, Win 7 behaves very clever and really much better than the old and proven Linux tools (unless you know what you are doing and are aware of every issue). IMHO it is a real shame that most Linux tools are still behind in this regard. If you think you have an HDD with 4kB blocks, ask and I can provide you with some links on that topic. >> about the first partition in the partition table? It is an HPFS/NTFS >> partition and has been toggled bootable. It also has some stuff in it= >> that looks like it's important to Windows: a BOOTSECT.BAK file, a Boo= t >> directory, a System Volume Information directory, and a bootmgr file. >> Now for my Gentoo install, how and where do I make a /boot partition? >> Do I replace the Windows 7 boot partition with /boot? If so, what >> happens to the contents? or Do I make a /boot partition on /dev/sda3 >> and toggle the bootable flag there? >=20 > Something like that. You could install gentoo on one partition (I > don't recommend). >=20 > Just make partitions like you would do without windows. When you do > the grub-install script or by hand grub links the boot to the > partition where boot exists. You should not remove or change the > windows partitions or the data windows will probably brake when you > do. >=20 AFAIK, grub does not need the bootable flag. Leave it alone. Maybe Windows needs it, maybe it is just for good measure, I don't know. 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