On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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
