Of course, it happened again. A user installs gentoo on a system with windows already installed, and they can't boot into windows afterwards. Every time I've installed linux, gentoo or otherwise, for the last 10 years, I've head a problem booting. I'm sure every time it's my fault. But I'm not a dumb person, and I'm sure many, many others suffer as well. This issue, and the fear, uncertainty, and doubt it creates, is a major obstacle to windows users taking the plunge. So, I beg of you, please, somewhere at the top of the gentoo installation handbook, put a big warning about installing onto existing windows systems. If there's a page of advice on this, that would be magnificent. Maybe there's even a page already somewhere in the gentoo docs, I dunno, I'm just at the end of my leash. The less people who feel this pain, the better. Please, please please do something to warn people in the install docs! Once I'm done pouting maybe I'll even write some documentation. Just put up a big flashing thing saying "IF YOU GOT WIN ON THIS SYSTEM YOU BETTER FUCKING READ THIS PAGE OR YOU'RE GOING TO FUCK YOUR SYSTEM." Ok, sorry for the cussing but it's late... I just need a page that treats me like a 2 year old and tells me how to troubleshoot this. I can't boot to the win partition. I can't even mount it. And I find all these warnings on the web about having the boot partition above some cyl num thanks to dos/bios issues. I know the blame for this lies with microsoft and their bullying tactics. But we have to take that as a given. Ugh. Not fucking again... Stop the pain.
(In reply to comment #0) > So, I beg of you, please, somewhere at the top of the gentoo installation > handbook, put a big warning about installing onto existing windows systems. If > there's a page of advice on this, that would be magnificent. Maybe there's > even a page already somewhere in the gentoo docs, I dunno, I'm just at the end > of my leash. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#dualboot Boot loader configurations for dual boot setup are already explained in our Handbooks. > Please, please please do something to warn people in the install docs! Once > I'm done pouting maybe I'll even write some documentation. Just put up a big > flashing thing saying "IF YOU GOT WIN ON THIS SYSTEM YOU BETTER FUCKING READ > THIS PAGE OR YOU'RE GOING TO FUCK YOUR SYSTEM." Ok, sorry for the cussing but > it's late... No amount of red flashing text written in BIG CAPS will save people who actually don't read the document in question. > I just need a page that treats me like a 2 year old and tells me how to > troubleshoot this. I can't boot to the win partition. I can't even mount it. Sorry, but "I can't boot" is not an error message. You should try to ask on gentoo-user mailing list, forums or other places like that, Bugzilla isn't a peoper place for support questions. > I know the blame for this lies with microsoft and their bullying tactics. But > we have to take that as a given. Nope, the reason are users not reading the documentation and complaining when stuff doesn't work as they expect. WKR, -jkt
