On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Scott Garman wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:49:00 -0800 > From: Scott Garman <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Grub fails. Grrrr. > > John Jason Jordan wrote: >> My guess is that Grub 2 did install, but incompletely. Grub 1.5 failed >> because it detected Grub 2.0 already installed. I installed LILO to >> sda1, not sda, think that doing so would make it easier to install Grub >> later. But LILO doesn't start if there is something in the MBR. That is >> just my WAG. > > I believe the PC BIOS looks at the MBR of the first disk, not the first > partition on the first disk. So you needed to install LILO or GRUB to > /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1. > > Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the only time you > should install a bootloader onto a partition is if you're already using > a bootloader on the MBR that you want to preserve and that presumably > will be told about the bootloader on your partition(s). > > Scott > > -- > Scott Garman
Yes, that's called a chainloader. Windows actually installs a chainloader into the MBR, and the "real" windows bootloader in the first partition. That's why you can dual boot windows and linux by installing GRUB in the MBR, and configuring a chainloader entry in grub.conf for booting Windows. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
