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Tom

Member

Registered: 2011-10-18

Posts: 7

Dual-Boot with Grub2 instead of Grub1?

Hi

It was really nice to use Grub1 again but can SliTaz boot straight from Grub2?  I have a triple-boot system with Ubuntu and Windows on a public machine ata work.  One of our people has sliTaz at home so i took the opportunity to install it here too   It's beautiful!   Unfortunately it seems that Ubuntu can't boot from grub1 and sliTaz doesn't seem able to boot from Grub2!

Can Grub2 chainload into grub1 or the other way around or something?

Regards from

Tom

michaelbischof

Member

Registered: 2012-01-20

Posts: 536

Re: Dual-Boot with Grub2 instead of Grub1?

Yes, it can. Both ways! I have no machine with Grub2 here at the moment. Like I remember you call from Grub1 like

> root (hd0,1)

> kernel /boot/core.img

return

and then the Grub2 installation starts - and you select there the installation on /dev/sda2 or /hda2.

if you start Grub2 it will show as well installations done with Grub1 and start them.

What I did not learn yet is the syntax of this Grub2-file in order to manually change it in a text editor.

lexeii

Administrator

Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: Dual-Boot with Grub2 instead of Grub1?

Grub Legacy, Grub2, Grub4dos...

At this time I using grldr from grub4dos on my netbook with multiple boot: windows xp, linux mint and several frugal mini-linuxes.

I boot LinuxMint (Ubuntu based) not with Grub2 as designed, but with Grub4dos. There is my lines in menu.lst:

title LinuxMint 11

rootnoverify (hd0,5)

kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro  gfxpayload=800x600x24,800x600  quiet splash pcie_aspm=force elevator=deadline

initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic

I think, you can too make triple boot with grub4dos or grub legacy.