From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IAx91-0002Df-Ih for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:11:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6I0Agc6020142; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:10:42 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out1.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6I02Lu4007122 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:02:22 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF96A43824 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:02:19 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> References: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:32:52 +0930 Message-Id: <1184716972.7158.18.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6I0AgcQ020142 X-Archives-Salt: 6fa8ee8a-414f-4d84-bb30-fe132c49e514 X-Archives-Hash: 4e6b0351cc4b6f7bba22308351248a85 On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, =C2=BBQ=C2=AB wrote: > In , > Thufir wrote: >=20 > >I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the > >following worked: >=20 > [snip grub.conf] >=20 > >I would've thought that the chainloader +1 statement would be required > >-- that's my experience at least. >=20 > 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=3D134856 > 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. >=20 > 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, --=20 Iain Buchanan Kevin: Dad, the fish got away.=20 Joe Swanson: The hell it did. You get in there and you kick that fish's = ass. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list