As promised, here I'm back to report my findings.
But first of all, I gratefully acknowledge the hints from adrian
(private eMail conversation). Thank you again!
I publicised my findings in the Gentoo forum "Installing Gentoo":
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4787108.html#4787108
With legacy GRUB, I had experienced serious problems chainloading into a
logical partition:
>http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4757849.html
Can you point me to my source of misunderstanding?
Or is this a shortcoming of the grub legacy (0.97) implementation?
- If yes: Has this functiona