On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:40, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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 > Youve got the right idea, but hd0,4 is the logical holder for your linux partitions, not the boot partition that holds the grub files. So root is your /boot partition, ie hd0,5.
All this information can be found in your info files for grub, and by using your method, section 3.2 (Installing Grub Natively) -- Breaking up Microsoft isn't enough. What the court needs to do is start breaking kneecaps. -- The BSD Daemon, when asked by Humorix for his reaction to the proposed Microsoft two-way split -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list