Re: dual boot with no current /boot partition

bbxrider wrote: 

the directions i've seen to create dual boot after the fact indicate i need
to copy the /boot partition to a fat32.
No that doesn't sound right at all, you have to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to include the windows installation.

see the grub manual for help, I printed it out when I had to do it.
(type, man grub)

Now I'm guessing, but your /boot is not a seperate partition that is automatically mounted at /boot but part of the / partition

i'm guessing at this point i can run druid somehow to create the missing
partitions, but since i don't have  the installed version
of the /boot with whatever should be there, is there someway to recreate it,
or some other way to create the dual boot system???


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