[gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Hi,
   OK, the target machine is now rebuilt. I decided since I had to
rebuild both WinXP and Gentoo that I'd just put them on the same hard
drive. The Gentoo install is complete right up to the point where I
run grub and write it somewhere and I want to make sure I understand
the right way to do this.

   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?

Thanks,
Mark

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