On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:23:28 -0800, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> I'm giving Gentoo another try, having been using Ubuntu for quite a
> while, and more recently Mint.  I would like to be able to access Mint
> until the Gentoo system is working as I'd like it.
> 
> I have gotten through the install, for the most part, up to grub.  I can
> see how to edit the grub.conf file for my Gentoo partition.  However, it
> isn't clear to me from the examples how to write a grub.conf entry for
> Mint's root (/) partition, on /dev/sda8. I am asking for advice on
> writing the grub.conf file.

I wouldn't bother, Mint already has Grub2, which makes adding extra
distros a piece of cake. Install Gentoo, without a bootloader, reboot
into Mint and run "sudo grub-update". It will scan your disks, detect the
Gentoo setup and add a menu entry to Mint's bootloader. It is even
sensible enough to recognise that the installation is Gentoo and name it
accordingly.

If you decide to dump Mint, you'll need to install Grub2 on Gentoo and
copy the config file over, but that's all.


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Neil Bothwick

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