On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, »Q« wrote: > In <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the > >following worked: > > [snip grub.conf] > > >I would've thought that the chainloader +1 statement would be required > >-- that's my experience at least. > > It's only needed if you're booting an unsupported (by grub) OS;
no only unsupported OSs, you can chainload anything (bootable) such as another linux distro, which has installed a bootloader into the partition. See how this guy booted 30+ OS's from grub: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=134856 > it > tells grub to just hand off to another bootloader. The +1 tells grub > to load the first sector of the OS's partition, which is where the > other bootloader should be embedded. > > As long as you're booting Linux kernels, you can just point grub at > them without using another bootloader. you mean as long as grub understands the kernel and filesystem, you can tell grub to load the kernel directly, with provided arguments. I think :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Kevin: Dad, the fish got away. Joe Swanson: The hell it did. You get in there and you kick that fish's ass. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
