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
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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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