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On 2011-12-05, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 05 Dec 2011 21:58:44 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> On 2011-12-05, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>> It is for the usual definition of "primary bootloader" as the one that |
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>> is loaded and run by the BIOS. |
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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 |
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>> (primary bootloader) |
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>> |
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>> > chainload grub on /dev/sdb |
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>> (secondary bootloader). |
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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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>> You're right, you can. Though to get grub2 to install on a partition |
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>> like /dev/sda8 instead of in the MBR you have to use the --force |
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>> option or you'll get some incomprehensable error message when you try |
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>> to do the 'setup' command. |
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> Last time I installed Ubuntu on a machine that had a different primary |
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> OS/bootloader I chose for it to be installed on the Ubuntu partition and there |
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> was not problem with it. It was GRUB2 |
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I tried that a couple weeks ago with several different versions of |
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Ubuntu and it didn't work with any of them. The installer was |
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perfectly happy letting my chose a partition as a destination, and |
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there were no error messages or warnings, but it just didn't work |
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after it was installed. |
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I had to boot the Ubuntu live CD and then install grub2 in the Ubuntu |
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partition by hand using the --force option. |
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