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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:03 AM

I installed Gentoo on a laptop. I now plan to install it on a PC with
Windows 2k and dual boot.

Do I need to make the linux boot partition bootable by placing the (*)
since the NTFS partition is already toggled bootable?

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Colyn Goodson

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#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:03 AM

Colyn wrote:
> I installed Gentoo on a laptop. I now plan to install it on a PC with
> Windows 2k and dual boot.
>
> Do I need to make the linux boot partition bootable by placing the (*)
> since the NTFS partition is already toggled bootable?

IMHO it's easiest to just install a linux boot loader and you don't have to
worry about things like that.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...with-GRUB.html

//Aho

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:03 AM

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 07:36:12 +0200, "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
wrote:

>Colyn wrote:
>> I installed Gentoo on a laptop. I now plan to install it on a PC with
>> Windows 2k and dual boot.
>>
>> Do I need to make the linux boot partition bootable by placing the (*)
>> since the NTFS partition is already toggled bootable?
>
>IMHO it's easiest to just install a linux boot loader and you don't have to
>worry about things like that.
>
>http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/...with-GRUB.html
>
>
>
> //Aho

I plan to use grub as I did on my laptop.

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Colyn Goodson

http://home.swbell.net/colyng
http://www.colyngoodson.com

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:03 AM

Colyn wrote:
>>> Windows 2k and dual boot.
> I plan to use grub as I did on my laptop.

Sounds like my setup. Works great....

/Stig

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:03 AM

Colyn wrote:
> I installed Gentoo on a laptop. I now plan to install it on a PC with
> Windows 2k and dual boot.
>
> Do I need to make the linux boot partition bootable by placing the (*)
> since the NTFS partition is already toggled bootable?
>
>
If you install Linux after Windows than it's the easy way.
Just keep Windows partition as bootable - otherwise windows wont boot.
Grub or Lilo can boot from any partition - make it your OS loader.

Regards,
m.s.w

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