I use lilo.
Just an alert - when I put windows 7 on, even though I used the same
scheme that worked for 98, 2000, XP etc, did NOT work for 7.
My setup:
hda1 - windows. 100gb
hda2 - linux boot, 100mb
hda5 - linux swap, 2gb
hda6 - linux rest
Windows 7 complained about missing files (and was unable to boot) when
lilo was installed to hda and I tried to chainload to hda1.
The workaround for me? Install lilo to hda2, let windows take over
hda, and I used the windows vista tool "bcdedit" to configure an entry
to chainload up to hda2. Yes, though meant for Vista, 7 uses the same
"BCD" system and the same tools seem to work for configuring it. Note
that Vista/7 do not use boot.ini like previous versions did.
This works, but I would prefer the Windows bootloader to be secondary...
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Bob Stia wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 19:00:26 Chuck Hast wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 18:55, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 18:17, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That should work I guess I will use my Ubuntu on a stick and recover
>>>>> the
>>>>> MBR and set it up to aim where it does now.
>>>>>
>>>>> sda1 = 9G boot for Unbuntu 9.10
>>>>> sda2 = extended
>>>>> sda5 = swap
>>>>> sda6 = 86.6G Holds Ubuntu home/user_directories
>>>>> sda7 = 83.2G Want to install Win7 here
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to put the FS on sda7, the last one on the list.
>>>>
>>>> Check the size of sda7, and make sure the partition it installs onto is
>>>> 83.2 GB or whatever it reports in bytes. The numbering might be
>>>> different, and it'd really suck to stomp on the wrong partition.
>>>
>>> Yes, I am going to use a stick with partition magic on it and resize it
>>> and
>>> format it to ntfs. That will take care of that...
>>
>> Not so sure you will be able to install windows to that partition. windows
>> wants to be on the very first partition, There is a way to fool it into
>> thinking it is installing there but I don't know what it is. (format it
>> and
>> rename it C: ?) I would google it before I tried. And, rest assured
>> Windows
>> WILL wipe your mbr.
>
> Sure about that? MeatRAM says I installed NT on partition #2. I'll buy
> that it has to be a _primary_ partition though. Either way, sda7 won't
> work. BICBW about the #2 thing
>
> (g)parted can move and resize partitions losslessly. Since there's nothing
> in sda7, there's no need to move it (that'd involve dozens of minutes of
> pointless reads and writes), just delete and recreate. You do need to scoot
> 2-6 over to make room, though.
>
> Or you can use tar/cpio to copy everything in sda6 to sda7, delete the 5, 6,
> 7, and 2, create a new regular partition 2 (where W* will go) _exactly_ the
> size 6 was, an extended partition 3 covering from the end of 2 to the end of
> the disk, 5 _exactly_ the size it was, then 6 _exactly_ the same size 7 was,
> and the filesystem on 6 should be as 7 was before you started all this
> faffing about with fdisk. mkswap, fix fstab and grub, and Bob's your uncle.
> But that's really hairy and I would not recommend it to anyone. You can
> make it a lot less hairy if you have a few dozen GB of free space on another
> drive.
>
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