On Tuesday 15 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:15:13 -0500, Gene wrote: >> On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> >On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:29:21 -0500, Gene wrote: >> >> Your F10 grub2 is broken beyond repair also, and I needed it to work >> >> so I could try some other distro's that do use grub2 to boot with. >> > >> >You couldn't chainload those other dists with legacy GRUB? >> >> Not if the boot partition is on an ext4 filesystem. > >Nonsense. > >When chainloading, the the filesystem on the target boot partition is >irrelevant. > >I can ensure you that Fedora 10's GRUB is capable of chainloading >a different distribution's boot loader even if that dist is installed >on ext4. > >> I experimented with it >> pointed at an ext3 filesystem and it worked as expected. > >Then you've done something wrong as in the examples in your recent >thread. Chainloading is between boot loaders in boot sectors. > I may not have had the syntax correct, but all I could get out of it was an error 13, invalid file format. I have grub-0.97 (F10 32 bit) in the mbr of /dev/sda. I have grub-1.97 (Mint 8 64 bit) in the mbr of /dev/sdb. I have grub-0.97 (Mandriva 2009.1 64 bit) in the mbr of /dev/sdd. What would be the exact stanza in the F10 grub.conf to switch directly to the Mint 8 boot screen without involving the grub2 rpm or any of its utilities at all? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> If the shoe fits, it's ugly. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
