Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 May 2005 15:27:14 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > And JIC you need this, parts 1 through 4 are the primaries, 5 and up > *will* be logicals, *if* one of 1 through 4 was designated as an > extended partition. Only one primary per disk can be extended. Linux doesn't require any partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Cox
On Sunday 01 May 2005 03:06 pm, Maxim Vexler wrote: > oops, sorry my mistake. > windows (fat32) is on hda6. > hda5 is ext3 which is mapped as /home. > > The grub syntax is correct, sorry for the confusion. > I tried that setup once and never could get it working on an extended partition. -- Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
And JIC you need this, parts 1 through 4 are the primaries, 5 and up *will* be logicals, *if* one of 1 through 4 was designated as an extended partition. Only one primary per disk can be extended. jic!, rgh. The Disguised Jedi wrote: Windows REFUSES to be installed on a logical partition. It p

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread The Disguised Jedi
Windows REFUSES to be installed on a logical partition.  It prefers to be in the #1 slot, but will take as low as #4.  Anything else is no good for it.   Move it to hda1 and you shouldn't have any problems with it.  On 5/2/05, Maxim Vexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/2/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 5/2/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maxim Vexler wrote: > > >I think that the claim of "Windows unable to boot from logical > >partition" is half true. > >As I have written, I did managed to install and boot windows from a > >logical partition but the windows boot loader (ntldr) h

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-01 Thread Richard Fish
Maxim Vexler wrote: >I think that the claim of "Windows unable to boot from logical >partition" is half true. >As I have written, I did managed to install and boot windows from a >logical partition but the windows boot loader (ntldr) had to be on a >physical partition. > >That leades me to this id

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-01 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 5/1/05, Travis Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The system (windows) itself got installed into hda5. > > then > > rootnoverify (hd0,5) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > Should look like > > rootnoverify (hd0,4) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > Travis R. > > -- oops, sorry my mista

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-01 Thread Travis Rousseau
> The system (windows) itself got installed into hda5. then rootnoverify (hd0,5) makeactive chainloader +1 Should look like rootnoverify (hd0,4) makeactive chainloader +1 Travis R. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-01 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 5/1/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maxim Vexler wrote: > > >Hello to everyone, > > > >I'm trying to achieve the most simple dual boot possible : Linux & > >Windows on the same hd. > >Trivial? I Think not! > > > >Here is my new 160GB hard drive scheme, after being dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-01 Thread Richard Fish
Maxim Vexler wrote: >Hello to everyone, > >I'm trying to achieve the most simple dual boot possible : Linux & >Windows on the same hd. >Trivial? I Think not! > >Here is my new 160GB hard drive scheme, after being dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 out. >hda1 ext2 >hda2 swap >hda3 reiserfs >hda4 extended >

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-01 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hello to everyone, I'm trying to achieve the most simple dual boot possible : Linux & Windows on the same hd. Trivial? I Think not! Here is my new 160GB hard drive scheme, after being dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 out. hda1 ext2 hda2 swap hda3 reiserfs hda4 extended hda5 ext3 hda6 fat32 hda7 Linu