On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 16:49:21 -0500 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. > > Grub can chainload any bootloader that's visible to BIOS. Yes, you are correct, this can be done. I figured I wouldn't mention it as it gets confusing. Selecting Gentoo from grub should load Gentoo. Selecting Mint from grub and finding ... grub ... is just wierd. Few things baffle users as much as that. Yes, been there done that :-) > 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. That works too, I once had a system set up just that way. The maintenance reduced me to tears -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
