On 2011-12-05, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 05 Dec 2011 21:58:44 Grant Edwards wrote: >> 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. > > 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