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 1RXosF-0001tV-A7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:51:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EAF721C195; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:51:15 +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 AE64821C061 for ; Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:49:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb57 with SMTP id b57so1208185eek.40 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:49:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=cqC40wHRsXdASGjBxWYPvJWqm0JpXKI3Fnj3aRN7Zik=; b=LJjhdClPX4Z/Lbr03kcecHv5oqElEY0dXqlBTBOlVb1237tCfuJs5VKIVk6Irjn9o4 ujJv6o7X7MHL+xevNT2VpeM+dp+ffJHJeAAAZ0+Abnc5u3N6U1LSVqnwEmcwNKccKnOc ZG8N+tkzg33s0m45NhIQGXlNMDppkkJB5bkKk= Received: by 10.14.11.199 with SMTP id 47mr1994720eex.147.1323154168887; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:49:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v3sm67616622eej.7.2011.12.05.22.49.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:49:28 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:50:26 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.0.6-gentoo; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201112052324.00902.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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; boundary="nextPart2386826.ZKlcNFine5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201112060650.28167.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 773eb924-9963-42cf-b2ef-eec1b94f7b92 X-Archives-Hash: 679d12966d1992058caeec3622110824 --nextPart2386826.ZKlcNFine5 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 05 Dec 2011 23:33:12 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-12-05, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 05 Dec 2011 21:58:44 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2011-12-05, 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 y= ou > >> >> do have. Seeing as you intend to drop Mint eventually, you must > >> >> uninstall grub2 and all it's files from Mint. > >> >=20 > >> > Not *exactly* true. > >>=20 > >> It is for the usual definition of "primary bootloader" as the one that > >> is loaded and run by the BIOS. > >>=20 > >> > Grub can chainload any bootloader that's visible to BIOS. At minimum, > >> > that means you could have grub on /dev/sda > >>=20 > >> (primary bootloader) > >>=20 > >> > chainload grub on /dev/sdb > >>=20 > >> (secondary bootloader). > >>=20 > >> > I'm uncertain if it means you could chainload a bootloader stored in > >> > the first 512 bytes of /dev/sda8, but I suspect so. > >>=20 > >> You're right, you can. Though to get grub2 to install on a partition > >> like /dev/sda8 instead of in the MBR you have to use the --force > >> option or you'll get some incomprehensable error message when you try > >> to do the 'setup' command. > >=20 > > Last time I installed Ubuntu on a machine that had a different primary > > OS/bootloader I chose for it to be installed on the Ubuntu partition and > > there was not problem with it. It was GRUB2 >=20 > I tried that a couple weeks ago with several different versions of > Ubuntu and it didn't work with any of them. The installer was > perfectly happy letting my chose a partition as a destination, and > there were no error messages or warnings, but it just didn't work > after it was installed. >=20 > I had to boot the Ubuntu live CD and then install grub2 in the Ubuntu > partition by hand using the --force option. Hmm ... maybe they changed their scripts? It's been some time (more than a= =20 year? ) since I tried it. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2386826.ZKlcNFine5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk7duzQACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaifQCbBShhRKGc9i2oio63ese+zlLz d1QAoKkRXYmOLR96+umMruz3ZITqWeK3 =qe21 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2386826.ZKlcNFine5--