Hi Leslie,
hm, that's surprising, as it seems, you are subscribed to the list.
From my side I always have to CC: address@hidden manually, as I'm
not subscribed to the list.
None of your answers are visible here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2012-11/msg00048.html
Thanks for your feedback,
-Ulf
Am 20.11.2012 18:00, schrieb Leslie S
Satenstein:
Hi Ulf
You wrote to me, so I wrote to you. I was not avoiding
the list. I click on reply all.
All was only you.
--- On Tue, 11/20/12, Ulf Zibis <address@hidden>
wrote:
From: Ulf Zibis <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Can Grub start Windows XP from "other"
partition
To: "Hugo Bodewig" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 7:03 AM
Hi Hugo,
thanks for your additional feedback, even it if
doesn't solve my question ;-)
BTW, why you all answer only privately, without CC:
to the list? I think, this discussion could be
helpful for others.
Cheers,
Ulf
Am
20.11.2012 05:13, schrieb Hugo Bodewig:
Hi Ulf,
I understand your concern since I tried something
similar some years back with LILO and some MS
versions but cannot remember what the result was.
However, I have one piece of advice. When I play
around with the setup I do it first on an old
desktop. It is slow, cumbersome and only suitable
for trying out; but it will save you some
potential nightmares.
Kind regards / Mit
freundlichen Grüßen /
Meilleures salutations/ Cordiali Saluti /
此致敬意
Sinceramente seu / تفضلوا بقبول فائق
الاحترام
Dr. H. Bodewig
Project Control
PO Box 610
0043 Faerieglen - Pretoria, RSA
Tel: +27 (0)12 3612477
Mobile: +27 (0)78 7629586
E-mail: address@hidden
Links: http://bodewig.tel
On 20
November 2012 04:11, Ulf Zibis <address@hidden>
wrote:
Hi Leslie again,
thanks for your effort to describe your
configuration.
I'm afraid, my problem is very different
from yours.
You have only 1 Windows in your
configuration, but I have 2.
I guess, you have installed Windows in some
fix partition and have never changed it. So
the Windows inside will see this partition
as e.g. C: and that never changed.
In my case the "old" Windows-installation
was originally installed in partition sda1
as C:
Now I have copied that partition to sda5
with GParted and did a new
Windows-installation in sda1.
Grub 2 now shows 2 Windows operating systems
in it's start menu after update-grub from
Ubuntu in sda3. (sda2 is occupied by the
ThinkPad recovery partition)
When booting with Grub 2 into sda5, I'm
afraid, the "old" Windows installation will
see the sda1 partition as C: and sda5 as D:
so it would use and probably change files in
sda1 while referring to path C:\....
Before I try this, I would be happy if
someone could insure me, that Grub 2 will
hide partition sda1 when booting Windows
from partition sda5 to prevent a corruption
of the data in sda1 while first booting.
Can somebody give me information about that
risk and hopefully some hints how to prevent
from?
-Ulf
Am 19.11.2012 20:55, schrieb Leslie S
Satenstein:
This is my process.
1) My disk has Debian, Fedora16,
Ubuntu, Windows and Fedora 18
(test). If I boot without doing
anything, it is the Debian
grub.cfg file that takes control.
2) When an update comes for
either of the distributions
(Fedoras, or Ubuntu), it is their
own grub.cfg that gets updated. I
need to transfer that update to
the Debian grub.cfg
3) When I see this happening I
boot into my Debian system
4) I log onto that Debian system
as root and do a grub.mkconfig
>/tmp/grub.cfg
5) I review that grub.cfg to reset
the default to 7 (it is a field
near the beginning of the file)
(Menus are Counted beginning with
zero). I also remove more than two
generations of linux entries in
this grub.cfg and save the file.
I change to the /boot/grub
directory and do a cp grub.cfg to
grub.bak
I then copy the /tmp/grub.cfg to
/boot/grub. (replacing the Debian
grub.cfg)
I reboot, and see all my updates.
in the initial menu selection
screen.
grub.mkconfig will also recognize
all windows operating systems
--- On Mon, 11/19/12, Ulf
Zibis <address@hidden>
wrote:
From: Ulf Zibis <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Can Grub start
Windows XP from "other"
partition
To: "Leslie S Satenstein" <address@hidden>,
address@hidden
Date: Monday, November 19, 2012,
12:31 PM
Hi Leslie,
that sounds good, thanks for
your quick answer.
Just to avoid some bad
experience on my existing
installation, are you really
sure, that Windows will see
the other not 1. partition,
from which it is started, as
C:, even from a logical
partition?
Again thanks,
Ulf
Am 17.11.2012 02:23,
schrieb Leslie S
Satenstein:
YES.
When you execute
grub2, it surveys
all the disks and
all the partitions
and lists all the
operating systems
in a list. You may
set the default to
the operating
system of choice.
The command is
grub.mkconfig (or
grub-mkconfig)
put the output of
mkconfig to /tmp
ans use an editor
to review it
--- On Fri,
11/16/12, Ulf
Zibis <address@hidden>
wrote:
From: Ulf Zibis
<address@hidden>
Subject: Can
Grub start
Windows XP from
"other"
partition
To: address@hidden
Date: Friday,
November 16,
2012, 7:10 PM
Hi,
I have an old
bad running
WinXP
installation,
which was
installed on
partition 1 as
C:.
Now I want to
move this
installation
to another
partition and
make a fresh
WinXP
installation
on partition
1.
For some
reasons, I
want to have
the
possibility to
run the old
installation
later. I
believe, that
I can run it,
if I manually
"hide" the 1.
partition and
mark the 2. as
active/boot,
so Windows
will guess the
2. partition
as C:.
I Grub smart
enough to do
that for me
when booting
the old
Windows
partition from
the 2.
partition?
Ideally I
would like to
move the old
WinXP
installation
to a "logical"
partition.
Would that
also work?
So my
preferred
partitioning
would be like:
Primary
partition 1:
new Windows XP
installation
Primary
partition 2:
Thinkpad
Recovery
(physically at
the end of the
of the
harddrive)
Primary
partition 3:
Ubuntu
Extended
partition 4:
Logical
partition 5:
Ubuntu swap
Logical
partition 6:
Data
Logical
partition 7:
Backup
Logical
partition 8:
old bad
Windows XP
installation
(Copy from
originally C:)
Thanks for
hints,
-Ulf
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