From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:41:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <61A938AB-4CD7-4C00-82D3-5372B4583411@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111205234315.023b1336@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On 5 December 2011, at 23:43, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> ...
> 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".
This one. Everyone else who is replying is part of a conspiracy to confuse and cloud the issue.
What version of Grub you're using isn't so important as the principle that *you already have a bootloader, so there's no need to install another one*. Just skip the bootloader section of the Gentoo install completely and add Gentoo to the option list of your exiting bootloader configuration.
Were you installing Gentoo alongside an existing installation of another distro that used Grub 0.9x (for instance) then this could be done (for instance) by booting to the other distro and entering `mount /boot && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf`.
Stroller.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-06 11:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-05 20:23 [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition Alan E. Davis
2011-12-05 21:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-05 21:49 ` Michael Mol
2011-12-05 21:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-12-05 23:23 ` Mick
2011-12-05 23:33 ` Grant Edwards
2011-12-06 6:50 ` Mick
2011-12-06 17:40 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-12-05 23:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2011-12-05 23:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-12-06 11:41 ` Stroller [this message]
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