F10 rpm of grub2 completely broken

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 09:46:26 UTC 2009


On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:16:08 -0500, Gene wrote:

> On Monday 14 December 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:04:29 -0500, Gene wrote:
> >> >and can not deal
> >> >with chainloading w/ grub.
> >>
> >> That I got figured out, what I was trying to chainload was an ext4, and
> >> old grub just throws up its hands.
> >
> >Let me guess (taking into account the grub config mess in a recent
> >thread), you did not try to chainload boot sectors the ordinary way, but
> >instead you tried to let legacy GRUB mount ext4 /boot partitions before it
> >supported that file-system. For proper chainloading, rootnoverify is
> > helpful.
> >
> Precisely what I was doing.

Then what you've done is not chainloading, but trying to make one
boot loader boot multiple dists via multiple boot menu entries in
a single grub.conf.




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