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Old 09-15-2004, 11:39 AM   #1
gbkyle
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dual boot partitions

hey i just made some partitions, i wanna dual boot gentoo / XP
i have /dev/hda1 as my windows partition, /dev/hda2 as boot (and tagged bootable) ext2, hda3 is swap, and hda4 is / . Did i do anything wrong? I just wanna make sure.. and will lilo automatically know that i have a windows partition (i havent gotten up to lilo yet)
 
Old 09-15-2004, 11:41 AM   #2
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sorry i forgot, also.. im not doing lilo in MBR correct? cause i made a boot partition... i was confused about that part.. correct me if im wrong pls
 
Old 09-15-2004, 12:31 PM   #3
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As far as I can tell, you should be good to go.

Enjoy,
Eric.
 
  


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