On 2011-12-05, Michael Mol <[email protected]> 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.
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