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On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Dual boot scenarios get tricky, it is vital to assume nothing. You left |
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> out a lot of info, so I have to make some reasonable assumptions. Reply |
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> with corrections if we're going to wrong route. |
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> You can only have one primary bootloader, either grub from Gentoo or |
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> grub2 from Mint, it cannot be both. But it looks like that's what you |
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> do have. Seeing as you intend to drop Mint eventually, you must |
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> uninstall grub2 and all it's files from Mint. |
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Not *exactly* true. |
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Grub can chainload any bootloader that's visible to BIOS. At minimum, |
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that means you could have grub on /dev/sda chainload grub on /dev/sdb. |
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I'm uncertain if it means you could chainload a bootloader stored in |
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the first 512 bytes of /dev/sda8, but I suspect so. |
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> Your supplied grub.conf will only work if you have a boot -> . symlink |
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> present on /dev/sda1. Gentoo normally does this for you. |
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So do most distros I've touched. Just an FYI. |
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I think your instructions will work fine for him, though. I was going |
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to offer some grub1 stanzas, but I wasn't sure if real_root was |
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necessary. |
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:wq |
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