On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Arand Nash <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been using grub-legacy to boot grub via the bootrecord of an extended > partition, since having a multiboot setup where all other primary > partitions, including the mbr, are dedicated otherwise and I need the > bootrecord of grub on a "primary" partition to be able to use it with the > somewhat weird setup I've got (one button boots the mbr, another button > boots the grub-associated bootrecord) > > In grub legacy it was a simple matter of specifying to install to (hd0,3) > (or sda4). But in the new grub2 this no longer works and just gives > "grub-setup: error: no such partition" or "Invalid device `/dev/sda4'". > I've tried grub-setup with --force but no luck. > Is there any way to use the grub tools to do this, and if not, are there any > way to do it in a more manual fashion and create the bootrecord image > correctly and then simply dd the image onto sda4? > > > This is the fdisk output, goal is to have the "mbr" (br) on sda4 boot grub > files from sda6 > > Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x00000080 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 2550 20482843+ c7 Syrinx > /dev/sda2 2551 6375 30720000 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda3 6375 10836 35837098 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda4 * 10837 38913 225528502+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/sda5 10837 35726 199928893+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda6 35727 38427 21695751 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 38428 38913 3903763+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub > >
Have you tried using (hd0,6) and installing to the area at the start of your linux filesystem? _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
