Svend Rugaard Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Help help with a Scenario for my Netbook and Multiboot.1. First i want to say, i have use this site in a long time, and was actually this site, there make me begin with unattended Windows XP in the Very Early days of my life. ...Nahh maybe not. but at least like 4-5 years as i recall. - And i know not everything about the MBR etc but i know much enough to think a multiboot with a linux core system would not work as i want to . More because i actually have never use Linux distribution , more than on my PS3 where i have Yellow Dog, but this isnt something advance to install. 2. Im say from start i could maybe not write prober english , so if there is something people dont quite understand the meaning with, i will try to get the correct way to write it. All non english native spoken persons know what i meanHere it goes :I have a Acer Netbook with Pre-Install Windows XP Home Edition, and normally i would just wipe it of the harddrive, including delete the recovery partition. But as most know the netbooks is almost allways without DVD/CD drive .. And yes it has USB and have install Windows 7 from it, and Windows Vista also, but this isnt the problem, as i state in the start i know how this work with MBR and Bootsectors. And Usually Windows 7 has this good feature that it actually dont touch the 1 sector on harddrive even i partition the drive with win 7 and install it via Bootdevice. - Normally what i recall this only happen if you start the installer from inside Windows XP example. The even it isnt a upgrade is still not toch the bootsector.But as some migt have notice moblin is made "especially" to atom cores, and i have tried it from USB bootdeviceand i actually like it muchs, especially when i just want to use the internet and nothing more, there is even Windows XP to much power Consuming. And i would like it to be part of my bootoption but i dont know eactly what i have to do to make a grubloader actually start the program, if i dont let the moblin install the bootsector that it ask me if i should do when i install it.My Laptops Scenarios is this. 1. Primary (NON ACTIVE) windows XP repair / reinstall partition made by ACER2. Primary (Active) Windows XP3. Logical Partition (This way it dont touch my bootsector when deploy via Win2008 or manual install via USB)4. EXT2/EXT3 i dont exactly know but it wold only go for ext3 when i wanted to install5. Swap for Mobilon or maybe its the other way around .. Swap first EXT3 second , thats not important.Issue 4 and 5 is the way i want it setup, i have 1-3 as ishould be, but i tryied the easyBCD even the Beta latest 2.xx and actually it doenst make a diffrence because it just load the Grub Loader, but i am afraid if i make the Grub Dos availible it just do the thing i dont want to , but put it self in the first sector of the harddrive, then its to trouble to make a "Alt+F10" to make the rescure/reinstall partition normal again.So if i want to chose from Windows Boot Manager to load lets first say Grub Loader because i believe no matter what it should be install, so i can make a chain loader for the Moblin OS from there .. What would the command be from chainloader to load the 4 Partition according to my scenario ? Hope people can help me , or understand what i have written.Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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