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masteroftheuniverse
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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject: Dell system recovery from GRUB |
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OK, so the other day I got my new Dell Inspiron 6000  , and almost immediately set about dual-booting it with XP and Gentoo.
Now to the GRUB step, XP boots fine, and I can even get the Dell diagnostics partition, but I can't seem to boot the system recovery partition (which is /dev/hda3).
XP and diagnostics boot with a simple chainloader +1, but that doesn't seem to work on the sys recovery. 
I'd kinda like to get this working because that's the only copy of WinXPPro I have (which is not a bad thing becuase I hate M$Win but guess I'm a glutton for pain too  ...)
So how do I boot the Dell System Recovery partition from GRUB? 
appreciation and thanks. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject: Re: Dell system recovery from GRUB |
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| masteroftheuniverse wrote: | OK, so the other day I got my new Dell Inspiron 6000 , and almost immediately set about dual-booting it with XP and Gentoo.
Now to the GRUB step, XP boots fine, and I can even get the Dell diagnostics partition, but I can't seem to boot the system recovery partition (which is /dev/hda3).
XP and diagnostics boot with a simple chainloader +1, but that doesn't seem to work on the sys recovery.
I'd kinda like to get this working because that's the only copy of WinXPPro I have (which is not a bad thing becuase I hate M$Win but guess I'm a glutton for pain too ...)
So how do I boot the Dell System Recovery partition from GRUB?
appreciation and thanks. |
I've thought about that myself (although I got rid of my system recovery partiton  ). Have you tried a chainloader type entry? | Code: | title=Dell Recovery Partition
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
I would think it would have to have it's own bootloader, so chainloader would be the right thing to use.
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masteroftheuniverse
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| yes, I attempted this, but the system just hangs at the chainloader +1. So apparently that's not the way to do it. I'll keep playing around. |
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