On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:32:28 +0100, 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. >
Michael: Thanks for pointing out the rootnoverify command. I'd never understood its purpose, but your note prompted me to actually the RTFM at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html, and all is now well. In short, I am now chainloading a partition using grub 2 from a legacy grub installation. -- cmg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
