w2k/u7.10 dual-boot

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 4 18:55:01 UTC 2008


On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:49:40PM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't answer that... 
> 
> first partition: 20GB for W2K (FAT32)
> second partition (bootable) 40GB for / (ext3)
> third partition (not bootable) 98 GB for /home (ext3)
> fourth partition 1.1 GB for <swap> 
> 
> Anything foobar'd there? 

That should be OK.  Which were primary and which were logical partitions
(if any)?

And do NOT set the linux partition bootable.  Windows would likely hate
you for that.  Just leave the windows partition bootable and let grub in
the MBR do booting properly (it doesn't care about bootable flags).

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