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 1Qsu2f-0006rX-PP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:05:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 274CA21C0D5; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C1321C40B for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:04:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.148] (helo=smtp16.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qsu1Z-0007JB-Pt for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:04:01 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp16.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qsu1Z-0003aD-7c for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:04:01 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E789B6C for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:07:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6oY0h6YilXDS for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:07:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCC770E for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:07:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 10.10.11.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:07:31 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201108151052.57174.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <201108151052.57174.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:07:31 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2 From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 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=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Qsu1Z-0003aD-7c X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-1.729, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.81) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 85bd1cb03ed4e5c9f782a0a2e0f26e16 On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:52 am, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello List, > > I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding a= nd > using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles he= re > too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being > dense, or maybe it was on another list. > > I want to try another distro on an oldish box, but its gentoo grub can'= t > chain to the grub-2 on another boot partition - it reports an invalid > executable format, or something like that. > > Looks like time to bone up on grub-2 as it's the Coming Thing. 6 months might not be enough, there was a thread called "[gentoo-user] A tiny titillating taste of grub2" and dates back to 9 January 2011. There also was a thread called "[gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for idiots like me" by walt (24 January 2011) which is, I believe, what you're looking for. -- Joost