Can GRUB boot GRUB?

Iain Stephen i.stephen at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Feb 20 18:36:03 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 12:18 -0600, Justin Willmert wrote:
> You should be able to just chain load the Debian installation much like 
> you would the Windows installation. Just give Debian the hda0 path 
> rather than sdaX.
> Take my comments as a grain of salt though. I am by NO means an advanced 
> user in GRUB. I'm just telling you that I don't see much of a difference 
> between the chain loading situations.

That's what I thought too, but I can't get it to work. If I remember
correctly Debian starts booting but tries to use the FC4 filesystem on
sda and I get a kernel panic, or various GRUB errors depending on what
I've tried in menu.lst.

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