[gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first

[gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   From experience I don't see this as a problem but I thought I'd ask.

1) I just installed Win XP

2) I'm going to install Gentoo

3) I plan to use grub to dual-boot

   Any reason I cannot install grub at the start of the Gentoo install
process instead of at the end? This would allow me to check that
Windows is still booting before I spend hours building the machine up
with Gentoo only to run into some sort of an issue with the way I've
got Windows on the box.

   OK?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first

[Nick Rout]

you'll need to get to the point where you can compile grub - ie up to
stage 3 probably.

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:15:56 -0700
Mark Knecht wrote:

> Hi,
>    From experience I don't see this as a problem but I thought I'd ask.
> 
> 1) I just installed Win XP
> 
> 2) I'm going to install Gentoo
> 
> 3) I plan to use grub to dual-boot
> 
>    Any reason I cannot install grub at the start of the Gentoo install
> process instead of at the end? This would allow me to check that
> Windows is still booting before I spend hours building the machine up
> with Gentoo only to run into some sort of an issue with the way I've
> got Windows on the box.
> 
>    OK?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first

[Mark Knecht]

Well, duh.....I guess you're right about that....too bad. That's what
I get for not thinking it through.

OK, I'll just do the install like normal. Thanks

- Mark

On 9/6/05, Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> wrote:
> you'll need to get to the point where you can compile grub - ie up to
> stage 3 probably.
> 
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:15:56 -0700
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >    From experience I don't see this as a problem but I thought I'd ask.
> >
> > 1) I just installed Win XP
> >
> > 2) I'm going to install Gentoo
> >
> > 3) I plan to use grub to dual-boot
> >
> >    Any reason I cannot install grub at the start of the Gentoo install
> > process instead of at the end? This would allow me to check that
> > Windows is still booting before I spend hours building the machine up
> > with Gentoo only to run into some sort of an issue with the way I've
> > got Windows on the box.
> >
> >    OK?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
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> 
> --
> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
> 
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> 
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first

[Harald Arnesen]

Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> writes:

> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:15:56 -0700
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    From experience I don't see this as a problem but I thought I'd ask.
>> 
>> 1) I just installed Win XP
>> 
>> 2) I'm going to install Gentoo
>> 
>> 3) I plan to use grub to dual-boot
>> 
>>    Any reason I cannot install grub at the start of the Gentoo install
>> process instead of at the end? This would allow me to check that
>> Windows is still booting before I spend hours building the machine up
>> with Gentoo only to run into some sort of an issue with the way I've
>> got Windows on the box.
>> 
> you'll need to get to the point where you can compile grub - ie up to
> stage 3 probably.

Not really. It can be installed from a live CD.
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