Hi Leslie,
that sounds good, thanks for your quick answer.
Just to avoid some bad experience on my existing installation, are you really sure, that Windows
will see the other not 1. partition, from which it is started, as C:, even from a logical partition?
Again thanks,
Ulf
Am 17.11.2012 02:23, schrieb Leslie S Satenstein:
YES.
When you execute grub2, it surveys all the disks and all the partitions and lists all the
operating systems in a list. You may set the default to the operating system of choice.
The command is grub.mkconfig (or grub-mkconfig) put the output of mkconfig to /tmp ans use an
editor to review it
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--- On *Fri, 11/16/12, Ulf Zibis /<[email protected]>/* wrote:
From: Ulf Zibis <[email protected]>
Subject: Can Grub start Windows XP from "other" partition
To: [email protected]
Date: Friday, November 16, 2012, 7:10 PM
Hi,
I have an old bad running WinXP installation, which was installed on
partition 1 as C:.
Now I want to move this installation to another partition and make a fresh
WinXP installation
on partition 1.
For some reasons, I want to have the possibility to run the old
installation later. I believe,
that I can run it, if I manually "hide" the 1. partition and mark the 2. as
active/boot, so
Windows will guess the 2. partition as C:.
I Grub smart enough to do that for me when booting the old Windows
partition from the 2.
partition?
Ideally I would like to move the old WinXP installation to a "logical"
partition. Would that
also work?
So my preferred partitioning would be like:
Primary partition 1: new Windows XP installation
Primary partition 2: Thinkpad Recovery (physically at the end of the of the
harddrive)
Primary partition 3: Ubuntu
Extended partition 4:
Logical partition 5: Ubuntu swap
Logical partition 6: Data
Logical partition 7: Backup
Logical partition 8: old bad Windows XP installation (Copy from originally
C:)
Thanks for hints,
-Ulf
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