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HI, guys,
I've got a spare partition and want to throw Gentoo on it. This will overwrite my Grub. Arch is my permanent flavour (obviously), so I want it to 'own' Grub. Once I have installed Gentoo, what is the best way to give Grub ownership back to Arch?
Looking at the problem from another angle. Would it be better if I installed Gentoo, but didn't do the Grub bit? I could then theoretically boot into Arch and then have Grub point at Gentoo, also.
Anyone been down this road and found the best solution?
Cheers,
Chris.
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If you install Gentoo from stage3, I don't think that there is gonna be any Gentoo's grub automatically installed somewhere.
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Hmmm, wouldn't that leave most Gentoo users unable to boot?
Chris.
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In case gentoo *does* install grub into the MBR, the way to give control back to Arch from gentoo is:
$ grub
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]
grub> root (hdX,Y)
grub > setup (hdX)
grub > quit
where (hdX,Y) is the boot partition of Arch in grub notation.
Last edited by grey (2009-09-26 13:31:02)
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Many thanks. I think i will install Gentoo, but exclude the Grub step. I will hopefully be able to boot Arch hen and use grub to point to my hda3 partition.
Hopefully this will work.
Cheers,
Chris.
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