On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote: > > If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it > > to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main W7 OS > > partition 3? > > The one with W7 on it, I should have thought, as that's the one you want > to start. Why not just try it? And when you find out which partition is > which, why not set the bootable flag on the right one? I.e. the one with > grub in it.
I am not sure that I would want to do this. I recall that MSWindows used to be and it possible still is rather sensitive with needing the boot flag on its partition. Linux on the other hand is a more advanced OS which does not care where the boot flag is. The NTLDR bootloader is no more since Vista. A different boot loading arrangement exists and I am not sure of its behaviour. > > If I were to use W7's NTLDR equivalent [...] [would] I be able to > > chainload GRUB from it? > > I assume you mean "to" it. (I have a nasty, ever-growing suspicion that > Americans not only don't know their tenses, but they think backwards - > either that or I do.) :-) Nope. I mean use the Windows 7 bootloader as the primary bootloader to chainload GRUB from the Gentoo partition. The MSWindows stays in the MBR as it is now, the GRUB is installed in the Gentoo /boot partition. MSWindows bootloader chainloads GRUB. > Again, the answer's a lemon - suck it and see. > > No offence intended. Thanks, none received. I am not American. ;-) PS. Not that this somehow makes my English good, or that I share your view on American grammar. I have heard worse English being spoken in places like e.g. Northampton England, than any places that I happened to have visited in the US. :-)) PPS. I am making some progress with this (at least in terms of googling) and will report back as soon as I have achieved this MSWindows --> chainloading -- > Gentoo thing. -- Regards, Mick
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