From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RXiDd-0004MJ-QC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:45:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0D6621C118; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:45:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1994821C04F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:43:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 276A68045C for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:43:22 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:43:15 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition Message-ID: <20111205234315.023b1336@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs103 (GTK+ 2.24.8; 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@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/C/4RcAM2SrzgYj2lDmBQZw8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 760f2462-eb46-4fda-bcde-d5c959732fee X-Archives-Hash: dd0ca454743f751f811bcad331be95c2 --Sig_/C/4RcAM2SrzgYj2lDmBQZw8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick "Everything takes longer than expected, even when you take into account Hoffstead's Law." - Hoffstead's Law --Sig_/C/4RcAM2SrzgYj2lDmBQZw8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7dVxkACgkQum4al0N1GQOl+QCeNjUAVRMZ1bCiGeWsKn4tR5Sv AuMAn3PTUuYWsRgYC6jRdp79ZIKeIBq+ =Gc12 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/C/4RcAM2SrzgYj2lDmBQZw8--