[lfs-support] Another Question on Dual Boot
I have built an LFS system that I now wish to migrate to my main box.
To do this, I plugged in a USB drive, mounted it to
/root/tmp
, and ran the command:
dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=64K | gzip -c > tmp/drive.gz
On my main box, I will fire up a live cd, plug in my USB drive and
restore with this command
gunzip -c tmp/drive.gz | dd of=/dev/sda2 bs=64K
The reason it won't be sda1 is because windows is on there.
After doing that, I will chroot into the newly restored system and run
grub-install /dev/sda
And of course, I'll update
/etc/fstab
/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname
and so on to conform to the new system.
My question is on the grub.cfg syntax so that I can boot windows.
I guessed it will probably look something like this:
menuentry "Windows 7" {
insmod chain
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,msdos1)
chainloader +1
}
Will that work, or will I need something more complex?
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Re: [lfs-support] Another Question on Dual Boot
Rob wrote:
I have built an LFS system that I now wish to migrate to my main box.
To do this, I plugged in a USB drive, mounted it to
/root/tmp
, and ran the command:
dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=64K | gzip -c > tmp/drive.gz
On my main box, I will fire up a live cd, plug in my USB drive and
restore with this command
gunzip -c tmp/drive.gz | dd of=/dev/sda2 bs=64K
That's too hard. Just mount the formatted /dev/sda2 as e.g. /media.
cp -a /root/tmp/* /media
The reason it won't be sda1 is because windows is on there.
After doing that, I will chroot into the newly restored system and run
grub-install /dev/sda
And of course, I'll update
/etc/fstab
/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname
and so on to conform to the new system.
Depending on your build, you may need to rebuild the kernel with the
appropriate drivers.
My question is on the grub.cfg syntax so that I can boot windows.
I guessed it will probably look something like this:
menuentry "Windows 7" {
insmod chain
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,msdos1)
chainloader +1
}
I don't do Windows, so I can't help there. What you have seems reasonable.
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Re: [lfs-support] Another Question on Dual Boot
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 05:48:45PM -0500, Rob wrote:
> My question is on the grub.cfg syntax so that I can boot windows.
> I guessed it will probably look something like this:
> menuentry "Windows 7" {
> insmod chain
> insmod ntfs
> set root=(hd0,msdos1)
> chainloader +1
> }
> Will that work, or will I need something more complex?
Looking at my backups from the box which ran win7 (the mobo died,
but the config seemed to work until that time), I had
# revised invocation based on gentoo
menuentry 'Windows 7 (loader) (on /dev/sda1)' {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
insmod chain
chainloader (hd0,1)+1
}
Mine used DOS partitions, hence the use of part_msdos : I guess that
part could have been in the general parms. I suspect that what you
have suggested will do the same thing as what I cribbed from gentoo.
ĸen
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