If I remember from my WinME/Win2K days starting with WinME
(and maybe Win98 but that beta was a long time ago <G>)
you could install Windows anywhere on the disk. However,
I seem to remember it needs part of the first drive to put
ntloader, etc. on. But that all was a while back!
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:29:52 -0400
"Vincent van de Camp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, and about the windows-not-on-the-first-partition, I
seem to remember
that grub can trick windows into thinking it IS on the
first part, even
if it's not. But I haven't played with that.
Vincent
oom wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:50, Chris I wrote:
> > On 2003.08.17 23:50, oom wrote:
> > > You shouldn't need to recover the bootrecord, in
fact you should be
> > > able
> > > to set grub up to boot your XP partition, not
sure how you have your
> > > partiation table layed out (give us an fdisk -l
/dev/hda).
> >
> > Unfortunately, the problem that Vincent is having
(and I have had in
> > the past) is that he accidently wrote grub to
(hd0,0) instead of (hd0).
> >
> > To the best of my knowledge, the windows bootloader
is on hd0,0 (the
> > windows mbr simply boots the first primary
partition with the boot flag
> > set, usually hd0,0)
>
> Couldn't he change the active partition with fdisk ?
>
> > Whether he was to reinstall grup properly or not,
this leaves an
> > unbootable windows partition. Usually windows isnt
kept around purely
> > for bragging rights, so he probably wants to fix it
;)
>
> Hmm, i'm not an NT/XP expert, but I had a similar
situation with a '98
> box where lilo blasted away the windows partition,
fdisk /mbr fixed it
> no problem.
>
> Shouldn't he be able to start with a bootdisk
configure grub with (hd0)
> and add XP to the list of O/S's to boot ?
>
> Or do you also need the boot code sitting on
/dev/hda2 to load windoze ?
>
> > > (AFAIK you can't install XP on any partition
higher than 0 anyway)
> >
> > you can with any of the NT-based windows versions,
iirc, and at the
> > very least with xp.
>
> Hrm, well I don't know why after installing linux on
a friends laptop
> and then trying to install XP to /dev/hda3 an error
popped up saying
> something to the effect of "Windows must be installed
on first partition
> of disk" fortunatly it was just a debian/knopix
install and he just
> wanted linux for curiousity's sake ;-) me being
enthuiastic and thinking
> microsoft wouldn't complain about not having their
O/S first on the
> disk, just slapped linux /dev/hda1 swap /dev/hda2 xp
/dev/hda3 grr.
>
> after
> xp /dev/hda1
> linux /dev/hda2
> swap /dev/hda3
>
> all worked fine..
>
> Or did I miss something to do in XP ?
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