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 1RXgal-0002cd-Ct for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:00:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6933D21C0D2; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 22:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8534121C030 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:59:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1332A1B4017 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:59:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.355 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.355 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.146, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.201, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7nlQ5nlCwDbD for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:59:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CB41B4001 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXgYs-00058P-Ik for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:58:58 +0100 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:58:58 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:58:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:58:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20111205233420.7b38266a@rohan.example.com> 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-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 82603c2a-877d-4f38-81eb-6abca394dc5c X-Archives-Hash: 8635d298e0292f1deffc5c94ced91483 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 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. It is for the usual definition of "primary bootloader" as the one that is loaded and run by the BIOS. > Grub can chainload any bootloader that's visible to BIOS. At minimum, > that means you could have grub on /dev/sda (primary bootloader) > chainload grub on /dev/sdb (secondary bootloader). > I'm uncertain if it means you could chainload a bootloader stored in > the first 512 bytes of /dev/sda8, but I suspect so. 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. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ! The land of the at rising SONY!! gmail.com