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 1RXi51-0001r2-I7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:36:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1145221C139; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759F721C110 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB251B401B for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:33:40 +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 Fyb5Cq3i5tss for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:33:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1279A1B4017 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:33:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXi2K-0007fG-BM for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:33:28 +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 ; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:33:28 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:33:28 +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 23:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201112052324.00902.michaelkintzios@gmail.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: 99ff5e5d-90a0-43b5-adcd-5dff0a07d6ef X-Archives-Hash: 34706c62ac75b4d95e2556c4ee2e034d 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 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. > > 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 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. I had to boot the Ubuntu live CD and then install grub2 in the Ubuntu partition by hand using the --force option. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Am I accompanied by a at PARENT or GUARDIAN? gmail.com