Summary: | Two enhancements for Gentoo Installation Handbook | ||
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Product: | [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org | Reporter: | Ben <gamezace> |
Component: | Installation Handbook | Assignee: | nm (RETIRED) <nightmorph> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | docs-team |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Ben
2006-02-14 13:18:59 UTC
1) The handbook is for Gentoo installaton. If you want to dual boot then you need to set that up yourself. Besides, I think you are supposed to mark the windows partition AND the /boot partition as bootable. I've never had a need for dual boot so I don't know for sure. Can someone else verify this? 2) Networking is setup outside the chroot and then resolv.conf is copied into the chroot. section 6.a: Code Listing 3: Copy over DNS information (The "-L" option is needed to make sure we don't copy a symbolic link) # cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf (In reply to comment #0) > 1) When going over the partitioning scheme, you tell users to make their /boot > partition bootable... however, if they all ready have an existing Windows > partition that they plan on dual booting with, this could cause issue for them. > I would suggest including a note for Windows dual-booters for whom declaring > /boot as bootable is a bad idea. I've dual-booted with Windows for awhile, and even triple and quad-booted with Windows and various flavors of *nix. One can get away with marking both /boot and the Windows partition as bootable, or one or the other or *none* and everything still works as long as you've set up your bootloader correctly. Many threads on forums.gentoo.org confirm that marking both or one or the other as bootable works perfectly well as long as grub.conf/lilo.conf is properly configured. We appreciate your suggestions though; thanks for taking the time to file the bug. :) Closing with above explanation. Again, thanks for contributing, and we hope that you continue to enjoy your Gentoo experience. |