Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, »Q« wrote:
> In <news:bf6b6d5c0707171550sa74b587v3652ac2f00d3be8e@mail.gmail.com>,
> Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the
> >following worked:
> 
> [snip grub.conf]
> 
> >I would've thought that the chainloader +1 statement would be required
> >-- that's my experience at least.
> 
> It's only needed if you're booting an unsupported (by grub) OS;

no only unsupported OSs, you can chainload anything (bootable) such as
another linux distro, which has installed a bootloader into the
partition.  See how this guy booted 30+ OS's from grub:
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=134856

>   it
> tells grub to just hand off to another bootloader.  The +1 tells grub
> to load the first sector of the OS's partition, which is where the
> other bootloader should be embedded.
> 
> As long as you're booting Linux kernels, you can just point grub at
> them without using another bootloader.

you mean as long as grub understands the kernel and filesystem, you can
tell grub to load the kernel directly, with provided arguments.

I think :)

cya,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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