On 2011-12-05, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> 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