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 1IBBg5-0003LA-EP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:43:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6IFfjgG022404; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:41:45 GMT Received: from desiato.localdomain (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6IFaaP6016717 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:36:39 GMT Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by desiato.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD231861C4 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:36:29 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:36:25 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader Message-ID: <20070718163625.6559cb0b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200707180753.56549.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <30vvm4-331.ln1@goldry.remarqs.net> <1184716972.7158.18.camel@orpheus> <200707180753.56549.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0cvs37 (GTK+ 2.10.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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=Sig_diH8BtNsqUHIWXfrz3UlMJ8; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 70216f31-0f74-453a-9e25-1a7841b3fb61 X-Archives-Hash: 8de8c2d65ccfc49e6dbf9c5dde385b87 --Sig_diH8BtNsqUHIWXfrz3UlMJ8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:53:45 +0100, Mick wrote: > If you have some reason not to mix one OS', or distro's boot files, > kernels, etc with another, plus if you want to try a different version > of grub then you can install grub separately in the new OS partition > (instead of the MBR) and chainload this from your primary grub > installation. Should you wish to remove the new OS at a later date, > you will not need to rummage through the primary OS' /boot to clean out > redundant kernel images and what not. You don't need to mix files to have more than one distro boot from the same GRUB menu, just set the root() parameter accordingly for each distro. --=20 Neil Bothwick I am NOT Paranoid! And why are you always watching me?? --Sig_diH8BtNsqUHIWXfrz3UlMJ8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGnjN8um4al0N1GQMRAhyOAJ4nhrVeATtnExOIH2bJlGEUgdrtzwCcC4hx YPoZg0J3uFvHHaiOnFeTRBM= =KxyG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_diH8BtNsqUHIWXfrz3UlMJ8-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list