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Bug 247276 - better support for NTLDR
Summary: better support for NTLDR
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High enhancement
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
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Reported: 2008-11-17 21:38 UTC by SpanKY
Modified: 2011-05-13 23:45 UTC (History)
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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev 2008-11-17 21:38:33 UTC
nuking the mbr and installing grub can be a bit intimidating ... having better support (or just documentation) for using ntldr to boot Gentoo would be great

some info can be found here (but it's pretty round-about):
http://www.vsubhash.com/writeups/multiboot_os.asp
http://www.goodbye-windows.com/
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-17 21:43:55 UTC
I've messed with doing that before. It's not exactly "easy". You have to dd a copy of your grub boot block to a file on the windows partition and then point your boot.ini to this file, which essentially does a "chainload". From what I hear, this method (or at least using boot.ini) no longer works in Vista.

Even if we create some documentation for it, that's really more the docs guys area than releng's.
Comment 2 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-05-13 20:07:45 UTC
@docs-team:

Do you want to work on this?
Comment 3 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-05-13 23:45:37 UTC
Nope. Per agaffney's comment, and we can't possibly begin to support varying Windows configurations in our Linux installation handbook.