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 1IBBQG-00009V-QA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:26:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6IFPTGt011152; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:25:29 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6IFL5bm006838 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:21:05 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so307276ugf for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:21:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=W1gUd69L+6QSnByR/R4DQfVpD407DD5QH/Oqm32GXxC64MxnbB9WDyWETuar/apqs82vnvY7NvTBqF4S/NEYQZJ3/0SdSnPNtqfH/ypyjNsnqDhWfawS8e421NoQksJtnLXOKrkasLZzqn9Q4jFbwZe9txdiokdIVxwM57nnVd0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=GKG3psMiFVjMH52VsVymA83l3dJK/uxrRTFlZohjEuMWnYALyj325IfxqRkuWb7CNKKZn+XfqiHAMmmmqiOaUiCZqCFiYdDoQcdVnXtfcwDknbZXD72JczHJtCKBQLo5EoO4SoI5hsUYH9zKcRD0H1SsaygKbcPPRQetcKdSxfM= Received: by 10.66.221.6 with SMTP id t6mr422160ugg.1184772064917; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy ( [86.156.30.195]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m4sm2483398ugc.2007.07.18.08.21.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:21:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:53:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> <1184716972.7158.18.camel@orpheus> In-Reply-To: <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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2863727.cu0uAZ59In"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707180753.56549.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1f5cf1fb-b920-4cfd-a47f-3a4946bb97ba X-Archives-Hash: 07b6e78ca693148d50d438fba4e98223 --nextPart2863727.cu0uAZ59In Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 18 July 2007 01:02, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, =C2=BBQ=C2=AB wrote: > > In , > > > > Thufir 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=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. > > > > 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 :) If you have some reason not to mix one OS', or distro's boot files, kernels= ,=20 etc with another, plus if you want to try a different version of grub then= =20 you can install grub separately in the new OS partition (instead of the MBR= )=20 and chainload this from your primary grub installation. Should you wish to= =20 remove the new OS at a later date, you will not need to rummage through the= =20 primary OS' /boot to clean out redundant kernel images and what not. Otherwise, as already mentioned, Grub will boot natively all Linux distros. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2863727.cu0uAZ59In Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGnbj75Fp0QerLYPcRAjESAJ9MBOCkYetjLMK/UVm9kQh5/9ec/QCfQ+J5 v9sWL9+G8FdxMGi9k6LB/xQ= =kDt5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2863727.cu0uAZ59In-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list