Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition
On 05.12.2011 22:58, Grant Edwards wrote: Grub can chainload any bootloader that's visible to BIOS. At minimum, that means you could have grub on /dev/sda I have a setting with three bootloaders chained. First Grub2 who boots Gentoo or the Windows XP bootloader. The Windows Bootloader has to option to start Windows XP or a second Grub2 that loads a Xubuntu installed with wubi inside of a 30GB file on the ntfs drive C:. I am more then happy when I get the ok to kill Windows and Xubuntu, because that chain is very creepy ;-) Greetings Sebastian
[gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition
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.edwardsYow! ! The land of the at rising SONY!! gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition
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 Then I chainloaded it from the primary bootloader. The OS can do the same, but this means that he can either: a) Install Gentoo's GRUB to the MBR and chainload from Gentoo's grub.conf Mint's /dev/sda8 boot loader (assuming that he has installed the Mint bootloader to /dev/sda8 instead of the MBR); or b) Install Gentoo's GRUB in Gentoo's partition, or some other partition (e.g. a boot partition specific to Gentoo) and chainload this from Mint's GRUB2. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition
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.edwardsYow! Am I accompanied by a at PARENT or GUARDIAN? gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo: Grub, alternate GNU/Linux system on another partition
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
