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I think that that last post might be a little misleading for a new |
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user, I'd just like to clarify it a little bit. |
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On 18 January 2012 15:23, Fernando Freire <freire14@××.edu> wrote: |
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> I've installed other distributions of Linux before on a MacbookPro and |
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> have found that installing GRUB to the boot record of sda is a Bad |
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> Idea. |
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I can't comment on this part ... |
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> Instead, try installing GRUB to the partition that Gentoo is |
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> currently on (or wherever your /boot partition is mounted) such as |
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> (hd0,3). |
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Installing grub (emerge grub), and installing it to the Boot Record |
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(MBR) of a drive are very different things. |
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Do you mean; |
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grub > root (hd0,0) |
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and NOT |
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grub > setup(hd0) ? |
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This would require the Apple bootloader to allow chainloading into a |
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partition (and I have no clue if / how that is supported). |
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> Also, make sure that GRUB is compiled with support for the |
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> filesystem that you desire to use; I know for a fact that you have to |
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> have a particularly new version of GRUB to support EXT4 |
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> filesystems. |
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grub is has supported ext4 since 2009 - it's kernel filesystem support |
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that's most people mess up. |
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Most gentoo users will still be using grub-0.99, which is years old. |
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-r10 went stable on amd64 in 2010-07. |
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