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Bug 178267 - suggestion: expanding the grub section of the installation guide
Summary: suggestion: expanding the grub section of the installation guide
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Reported: 2007-05-13 00:41 UTC by sfullenwider
Modified: 2007-05-13 01:01 UTC (History)
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Description sfullenwider 2007-05-13 00:41:35 UTC
This is more of a suggestion.  Recently a user entered #gentoo-amd64 frustrated with not being able to boot windows and gentoo on the same system.  Most people, for two days, told him to rtfm, but eventually, with persistence we discovered that his windows partition was on a second drive which, windows being windows, refused to be second string and didn't boot for him.  grub confusion is fairly common in #gentoo-amd64 so perhaps expanding this part of the guide would help.  For the record, this is part of the grub.conf that eventually worked for him.


title Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-13 01:01:56 UTC
The installation handbook is strictly about installing Gentoo, but the instructions for dualbooting other operating systems is already found in the FAQ and the grub error collection guide.