I've heard lots of whining from users who can't do dual booting of Gentoo and Windows (many newbies want something like that). My idea is that we should include information from URL i provided in one of three places: faq.xml, grub-error-guide.xml or bootloader chapter of handbook (preferred), where's mentioned how to dual boot Windows but current entry is broken and won't allow them to do that. If we decided to tell users what to put inside grub.conf for Windows, it should be something that actually works, right? Waiting input what other doc devs think about that. :) Few links to make your life easier: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml Proposed entry should be very similar to grub help page, link to that page also will do.
(In reply to comment #0) > or bootloader chapter of handbook (preferred), where's > mentioned how to dual boot Windows but current entry is broken and won't allow > them to do that. If we decided to tell users what to put inside grub.conf for > Windows, it should be something that actually works, right? Hmm, could you explain what's broken in that entry in handbook? That's exactly what I've been using for years (except that partition numbers differ here, of course)...
yeah, the code listing 3 (grub.conf for non-genkernel users) i pretty much copy and paste for all my machines and other than changing the obvious (partition #'s) to suite my setup, i dual boot Win2000/WinXP/FreeDOS with Gentoo
(In reply to comment #2) > yeah, the code listing 3 (grub.conf for non-genkernel users) i pretty much copy > and paste for all my machines and other than changing the obvious (partition > #'s) to suite my setup, i dual boot Win2000/WinXP/FreeDOS with Gentoo Same here, same code listing, I dual boot Gentoo/Win2000 and have used the same config on a friend's box Gentoo/WinXP without any hassles....
You didn't read link. It's not about current entry being bad. It's about not mentioning that you need additional things when Windows is not at first disk which is very common situation.
I don't see much of an issue with this. The problem at hand is that even though the mbr points to the bootable section of the secondary (third, blah etc) disk, windows fails to boot. With the url mentioned technique, that disk iis made to look like it exists on the first disk (or something) and it Just Works(tm). Probably the best thing to do would be for rane to post his grub.conf file to show an example of how it's setup for better imagery.
I just want a mention "If you have Windows on second, third, fourth, or so disk, please add that remap entry to make it load properly: <pre>$entry</pre>. Details why you do that are in this $link. If you don't do that, Windows will just show black screen and refuse to load." Same thing in lilo and in grub sections. Lilo's example with Windows at hdb and Gentoo at hda (mine home machine, works perfect with that entry, without it just shows black screen): other=/dev/hdb1 label=Windows table=/dev/hdb map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 grub.conf sample of same situation with two hardrives and Windows at second one (which is most common): title Windows XP map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 It's just the way Windows works, not my fault that it breaks when it shouldn't and that mention for sure will make our users lifes easier. :)
My vote goes for: - This info is useful and is a common problem (imho) so should be added. - We should keep the handbook as small as we can so only relevant info goes there, this looks more like an specific error from out of Gentoo and have nothing to do with the installation so ... anywhere would be nice but not the handbook.
My vote goes for faq.xml now, will bug you with patch soon.
Created attachment 67817 [details, diff] faq.xml.patch Finally, proposed addition to faq.xml. :)
faq seems a nice place for now...
Fixed in CVS, this is under installation.
