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)
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