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 1IBENM-0001CZ-IK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:35:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6IIYCVQ004266; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:34:12 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6IIQP8e023977 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:26:26 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 18 Jul 2007 18:26:25 -0000 Received: from e180241089.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO brmbr.local) [85.180.241.89] by mail.gmx.net (mp043) with SMTP; 18 Jul 2007 20:26:25 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14782887 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+XAlQuJDSX9loojvat+m8RAIw7r7FX/pzqcGwD/5 cxmO1I/hXGOo1Y Received: from brmbr.local (brmbr.local [127.0.0.1]) by brmbr.local (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6IIQJN7004879 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:26:20 +0200 Received: (from aleks@localhost) by brmbr.local (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6IDUhQe012039 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:30:44 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: brmbr.local: aleks set sender to aleks_d using -f Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:30:43 +0200 From: =?utf-8?B?0JDQu9C10LrRgdCw0L3QtNGK0YAg0JsuINCU0LjQvNC40YLRgNC+0LI=?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader Message-ID: <20070718133043.GA6012@brmbr.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 85573330-4984-4c49-aa47-4c1559b3aedb X-Archives-Hash: 424e2f1ff2f4bac32c747bbeb6947f62 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) ---8<---8<---- 4.1.2 Load another boot loader to boot unsupported operating systems -------------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to boot an unsupported operating system (e.g. Windows 95), chain-load a boot loader for the operating system. Normally, the boot loader is embedded in the "boot sector" of the partition on which the operating system is installed. 1. Set GRUB's root device to the partition by the command `rootnoverify' (*note rootnoverify::): grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0) 2. Set the "active" flag in the partition using the command `makeactive'(1) (*note Chain-loading-Footnote-1::) (*note makeactive::): grub> makeactive 3. Load the boot loader with the command `chainloader' (*note chainloader::): grub> chainloader +1 `+1' indicates that GRUB should read one sector from the start of the partition. The complete description about this syntax can be found in *Note Block list syntax::. 4. Run the command `boot' (*note boot::). However, DOS and Windows have some deficiencies, so you might have to use more complicated instructions. *Note DOS/Windows::, for more information. ---8<---8<---- Note that it's usually better to refer to the info command for more serious documentation about GNU tools in general. RMS and his guys don't=20 exactly seem to like manpages that much that's what they have info for.=20 They have their point, but that's another flame war ;-) Regards, Aleks --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGnhYDrljAdGQVWuARArFWAKCo8OdIqDwinhEkTv6so6NTH01y7wCgu7XB d6bGkNKOFl/Pn0Hp0NgTKzI= =uhrl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list