Erin: Thanks for the reply. I will try creating a /boot partition and see if that helps. I can access the Windows partition now that I re-installed SuSE. Thanks for the a9.com link. I was not aware of it. It looks good, especially http://www.fatofthelan.com/articles/articles.php?pid=19
THANKS! ~ron On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 20:57 -0700, Erin Sharmahd wrote: > > Can I set up a Windows / Gentoo dual boot system? How is that done? > > I don't see why you wouldn't be able to dual-boot. I've never done it, > but it shouldn't be that different from any other dual-boot... > > > I have Windows XP installed, created my partitions for Linux (SWAP > > and /) and tried the Gentoo install (as I have done sucessfully with > > Unless the instructions for the Gentoo install have changed, you > probably want a /boot in addition to SWAP and /. /boot isn't > *necessary* per se, but, at least when I installed Gentoo, the > instructions assumed you made one, and so if this is your first time, > I'd do it... > > > SuSE). I mounted /dev/sda1 (my windows partition) to /mnt/gentoo/boot > > and it seemed to work fine with the installation until I got to "Code > > Listing 15: Running genkernel" (# genkernel all). At the end it said it > > could not copy to /boot. I rebooted and the boot loader was all messed > > up. I reinstalled SuSE to fix it so I could access Windows. > > Can you actually access your windows partition still? What you did was > try to install your linux boot partition on top of windows, which is not > what you wanted to do. The reason it probably errored out is that I'm > guessing your windows partition was NTFS, and genkernel was kind enough > to error out rather than doing nasty stuff to your windows partition... > > > I see that GRUB setup is not until later. I also have RAID 1 with SATA > > drives. I didn't see anything in the Gentoo manual about setting up > > RAID drives. > > You shouldn't need to mount your windows partition at any point of the > install -- even for GRUB setup... grub-install doesn't require that the > destination partition be mounted (at least, it never has for me). As > far as RAID, I'd be surprised if gentoo didn't talk about it... It may > not be in the install documentation, but in my experience, the gentoo > documentation is the best there is, and I have a tendency to go there > even though I'm not running gentoo when I need a really good explanation > of something that's not distro-dependent.... > > http://a9.com/gentoo%20RAID > I didn't look very deeply, but the 1st, 3rd and 4th results all look > like they should answer your question... I'm sure if you look a bit > farther down the list, you'll probably find more... > > ~Erin > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
