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 1RXhat-0002o0-7U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:05:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A48921C116; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F6321C110 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb57 with SMTP id b57so1009352eek.40 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:03:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vRLwHuqeb5VTx4SorAYZYX9EluHrIIwgmuZ7q91LB38=; b=r8ZBFBt/8BLwD1tPZ5xsjkZICQ5COPErnm+77iPx6bSx5ogM5TGaobRZNXcC8MXpuE dyVn++MNmBIk0creMX3ueLdkuyxvl0Yu0dLkVhIilmQcPCsAomdCpWixKmZpI7WNa3bq b66SKcBfA8F5fl1uLXVL7C5qWsgIHbNRN8NGA= Received: by 10.14.9.145 with SMTP id 17mr1449081eet.26.1323126192403; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:03:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 17sm52961848eej.3.2011.12.05.15.03.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:03:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 01:03:04 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition Message-ID: <20111206010304.7782ed2a@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20111205233420.7b38266a@rohan.example.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4ad43b13-fffa-41ce-97f0-6638ec34a7f5 X-Archives-Hash: 77c4365c5dcc74fd3035d3ff98f1b529 On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 16:49:21 -0500 Michael Mol wrote: > > You can only have one primary bootloader, either grub from Gentoo or > > grub2 from Mint, it cannot be both. But it looks like that's what > > you do have. Seeing as you intend to drop Mint eventually, you must > > uninstall grub2 and all it's files from Mint. > > Not *exactly* true. > > Grub can chainload any bootloader that's visible to BIOS. Yes, you are correct, this can be done. I figured I wouldn't mention it as it gets confusing. Selecting Gentoo from grub should load Gentoo. Selecting Mint from grub and finding ... grub ... is just wierd. Few things baffle users as much as that. Yes, been there done that :-) > At minimum, > that means you could have grub on /dev/sda chainload grub on /dev/sdb. > I'm uncertain if it means you could chainload a bootloader stored in > the first 512 bytes of /dev/sda8, but I suspect so. That works too, I once had a system set up just that way. The maintenance reduced me to tears -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com