On Monday 05 Dec 2011 23:33:12 Grant Edwards wrote: > 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.
Hmm ... maybe they changed their scripts? It's been some time (more than a year? ) since I tried it. -- Regards, Mick
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