On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Andre Costa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
>>
>> * 1M BIOS boot partition
>> * 500M Linux boot partition
>> * 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
>> * 200G unused space
>>
>> I would like to install W
Andre Costa wrote:
Hi,
I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
* 1M BIOS boot partition
* 500M Linux boot partition
* 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
* 200G unused space
I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if this
will mess up with my curr
On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
> 1M BIOS boot partition
> 500M Linux boot partition
> 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
> 200G unused space
Wait a minute, I need to back this train up a whole lot.
You have a BIOS Boo
On 11/22/2013 01:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
That's untrue. syslinux/extlinux both use jump code in LBA 0 that likewise
jumps to the start LBA for the partition with the active bit set. There's also
an old freebsd boot manager that let's the user choose which partition to boot
from, in effect a
On Nov 22, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 12:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Because you're using BIOS Boot, it's possible grub-install put core.img
>> (formerly stage2) right at the start of that partition, in which case by
>> merely changing the boot flag (the active bit), you
On 11/22/2013 12:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Because you're using BIOS Boot, it's possible grub-install put core.img
(formerly stage2) right at the start of that partition, in which case by
merely changing the boot flag (the active bit), you could choose which
OS is loaded. But it's not guaranteed
On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:53 AM, Andre Costa wrote:
>
> Another (offtopic) question: anyone knows if Windows 8 can be installed so
> far on the disk? (XP for example can't handle large disks) I would really
> hate to have to repartition because of Windows... I will only use it
> eventually for ga
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Andre Costa wrote:
> I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if
> this will mess up with my current boot manager? Can Windows 8 coexist with
> GRUB?
When I wanted to add Linux to my Windows 8 system and maintain a dual-boot,
the on
On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:19 AM, Tim wrote:
> Windows installations have always messed with bootloaders to set things
> up for itself, and nothing else.
To be fair, Linux installations eat their own as well.
>
> The only time I've seen Windows installations acknowledge prior installs
> and give yo
On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
> 1M BIOS boot partition
> 500M Linux boot partition
> 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
> 200G unused space
> I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if
>
Makes sense (unfortunately :-/ ). I will be prepared, thks ;-)
Another (offtopic) question: anyone knows if Windows 8 can be installed so
far on the disk? (XP for example can't handle large disks) I would really
hate to have to repartition because of Windows... I will only use it
eventually for ga
Allegedly, on or about 22 November 2013, Andre Costa sent:
> I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
>
>- 1M BIOS boot partition
>- 500M Linux boot partition
>- 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
>- 200G unused space
>
> I would like to install Windows 8 on this last part
Hi,
I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
- 1M BIOS boot partition
- 500M Linux boot partition
- 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
- 200G unused space
I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows if
this will mess up with my current boot manager?
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