[lug] Multi OS booting

Lee Woodworth blug-mail at duboulder.com
Sat Nov 26 12:38:22 MST 2005


This configuration works on my laptop:

Grub stage1 is on the MBR
W2K3 uses hda{1,6} as drives C: D:
Gentoo uses hda{5,7,8} as /boot swap /

1) Partition disk and format partitions from a live cd
2) Install W2K3, system partition is /dev/hda1 maps to C:,
    boot partition is /dev/hda6 maps to D:
3) Install grub to /dev/hda5 (/boot) using a live cd
4) Install grub stage1 to MBR (hd0)
5) Install gentoo, configure grub.conf on /dev/hda5

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         140     1124518+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda2             141        4863    37937497+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5   *         141         165      200781   83  Linux
/dev/hda6             166         675     4096543+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7             676         737      497983+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda8             738        1467     5863693+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9            1468        4863    27278338+  83  Linux

Part of fstab:
/dev/hda5               /boot           ext3            noauto,noatime          1 1
/dev/hda8               /               xfs             noatime                 0 0
/dev/hda7               none            swap            sw 0 0

/boot/grub/grub.conf:
# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0

title Linux 2.6.14-gentoo-r2
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14-gentoo-r2 root=/dev/hda8

title Windows Server 2003
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader  +1



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