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Bug 134022 - detecting other bootable partitions
Summary: detecting other bootable partitions
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Installer
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Reported: 2006-05-22 05:34 UTC by Jesse Morgan (morgajel)
Modified: 2006-05-22 07:26 UTC (History)
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Description Jesse Morgan (morgajel) 2006-05-22 05:34:56 UTC 
So I've attempted to convert a bsd user to gentoo- he had issues with the installer dying 3/4 of the way though. Unfortunately by the time I did get in, he had already formatted and installed FreeBSD.

One complaint he had was the system was apparently bootable, but he was unable to log into his windows partition from grub.

Could the installer possibly detect other OS and add them to the bootloader? Windows I think was the big one.
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-22 06:41:11 UTC 
The installer already looks for fat32 and NTFS partitions adds them to grub.conf when found.
Comment 2 Preston Cody (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-22 07:25:14 UTC 
actaully, in the released version, i believe only lilo detects windows partitions.  This has been added for grub in the newest version.
Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-05-22 07:26:38 UTC 
Sounds like a resolution to me