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 1RXgRT-0000Wr-UT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:51:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57F8B21C0D9; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:51:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA05F21C0CF for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaal13 with SMTP id l13so1011668eaa.40 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:49:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=RmOWAhDFW7Dy3b7z3l2cj9CtYQmqHbUfL8AlgJTFePE=; b=oHcCwTGHaZkXtcg3beRXq1/4FZ16bjRFaxHAST1oxaZIm2WYPmdne3WXp20cnvfKGt Tl6U0NzPE9IlTJVegkbv7tp8ronfuzmjXmUdadQwGzZui2q5F7DQcrMCdvG0syDE8fcM 6zwVZJ1zGE4m6r45gIWlLg4+NlDtOAFrymguE= 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 Received: by 10.213.21.143 with SMTP id j15mr1424710ebb.50.1323121761896; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:49:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.54.65 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:49:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20111205233420.7b38266a@rohan.example.com> References: <20111205233420.7b38266a@rohan.example.com> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 16:49:21 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: b05c1f17-bf5b-4397-9eb9-77810d9c9ed3 X-Archives-Hash: 00debdfa19480afaad74ef253055d922 On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Dual boot scenarios get tricky, it is vital to assume nothing. You left > out a lot of info, so I have to make some reasonable assumptions. Reply > with corrections if we're going to wrong route. > > 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. 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. > > Your supplied grub.conf will only work if you have a boot -> . symlink > present on /dev/sda1. Gentoo normally does this for you. So do most distros I've touched. Just an FYI. I think your instructions will work fine for him, though. I was going to offer some grub1 stanzas, but I wasn't sure if real_root was necessary. -- :wq