Re: [LAU] [ot] a little help with bootloaders...

Antanas Budriūnas wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> 2009/8/24 nescivi <nescivi@email-addr-hidden>:
>> On Thursday 20 August 2009 08:54:33 TheOther wrote:
>>> Julien Claassen wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>> I'm having a bit of a worry over an istallation: I have a computer
>>>> with a windows on the first partition, unfortuintely it must remain
>>>> there. Then on the space behind it I want to install my Linux. How
>>>> should
>>>> I go about bootloaders?
>>>> I could install grub in the MBR right up front, but then I should take
>>>> care of win's bootloader, in any case win is known to simply overwrite
>>>> another bootloader, if it feels like updating. Wouldn't really want to
>>>> risk it. Is there a way to put grub at the start of the Linux partition
>>>> and make it known to win, tat there's another bootloader sitting there,
>>>> waiting to be started? Kindest regards and THANKS!
>>>> Julien
>>> Hello Julien,
>>>
>>> You didn't say which version of Windows you're running. With Win95
>>> and Windows NT, I had no trouble installing Linux with GRUB using the
>>> Master Boot Record (MBR). As has been said before, install Windows
>>> first and Linux second.
>>>
>>> But when I got my laptop with Windows Vista pre-installed, this did
>>> not work. After Linux was installed, Vista would not boot. I did a
>>> Vista reinstall and forgot about Linux on that machine.

>> Maybe you didn't resize the NTFS partition properly?
>> You have to repartition with an external tool (I usually use the RIP live
>> distro for this), that takes care of resizing the NTFS partition properly.
>> I think this works best when it's brand new, so all the data on the NTFS
>> partition is at the start, so you don't loose anything when resizing.

> I had success many times resizing Windows XP and Vista partitions with
> GParted using Ubuntu LiveCD or USB stick (made using Unetbootin from
> http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net). Use manual partitioning only!
>
> Antanas Budriūnas

Hello Marije, Antanas,

I used the Fedora 11 x86-64bit DVD installation disk for the Linux
install and specified during the install process to use the existing
main Vista partition (didn't touch the Vista hidden backup partition).

The only pre-Linux install preparation I did on the Vista side was to
run Scandisk and Defragment using the Vista hard drive tools.

So you're suggesting I try again?

Best,
Stephen.
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
Received on Mon Aug 24 16:15:03 2009