On 9/5/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:17:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > grub and Gentoo are on /dev/hda > > Windows will go on /dev/hdc or /dev/hde > > > > I do not want windows to write anything on /dev/hda > > It will, because MS assumes you'll be using the windows bootloader. > > > I know the no one here can truly guarantee what Windows will do but > > there's little point in me doing this work if it's known to overwrite > > my main drive.. > > It won't overwrite the drive, just the part of the MBR containing the > bootloader code. You'll just need to run grub from a live CD and do > > root (hd0,X) > setup (hd0) > > to restore it. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Hi Neil, I'm attempting the new install of Windows but it won't go. I hope I'm just missing something easy. Thanks in advance. My system: Drive 0: Gentoo - partition 0 is boot. 100MB - 30GB - grub is on this partition - The drive has no space left - All the audio for this box is 400GB of external 1394 drives. Drive 1: For WinNT - 80GB - completely empty Drive 2: Audio Data - 80GB - GigaStudio audio sampler data files I've told Win XP to put the C: partition on drive 1. It then gives me the message: ********** To install Windows XP on the partition you have selected, Setup must write some start up files to the following disk: 29312 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on Bus 0 on atapi [MBR] However this disk does not contain a Windows compatible partition. To continue installing Windows XP, return to the partition selection screen and create a Windows compatible partition on the disk above. If there is no space available, delete and existing partition, and then create a new one. To return to the partition selection screen press enter. ********** Even though it says [MBR] above it won't proceed without creating at least one partition on drive 0. It appears I cannot install Windows XP on a second drive without writing 30MB to the boot drive? Is it possible to safely shrink an ext3 partition on the current drive 0 to make way for this? The only other thought that comes to mind at this point, assuming I haven't missed something obvious, is to rearrange the drives in the box and make drive 1 into drive 0. If I then installed grub on the Windows drive and fixed up fstab and the contents of grub.conf to recognize Gentoo on drive 1, would it work? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
