From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NaXP7-0003Sw-6R for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:39:37 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaXP5-0003Sf-4m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:39:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaXP0-0003Qw-Jz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:39:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59073 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaXP0-0003Qr-H0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:39:30 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:51313) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaXP0-00065b-0v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:39:30 -0500 Received: from [192.168.100.121] (xdsl-78-34-149-126.netcologne.de [78.34.149.126]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LaaY3-1O4KK72o3z-00lqPS; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:39:28 +0100 Message-ID: <4B61BDC0.4010008@web.de> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:39:28 +0100 From: edgar.soldin@web.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <20100128114547.GI4409@riva.ucam.org> <4B619B17.7010709@web.de> <20100128145559.GK4409@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100128145559.GK4409@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/SkViJ5Ro8DIKeLS8+DXRi0d3keBCOrTyjFFv ts5uc+h91hebYEEAKro+SmcnGpWqZgzezmuoMk6kJF/2m1AAwW gb3q0PqSt/o3Tm/hllNUg== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:39:35 -0000 I am pretty sure. If you want I am willing to retry. Still I wonder what is the deifference to the grubinst/g2ldr approach and why the boot code can find g2ldr. Can it read fat fs? .. ede On 28.01.2010 15:55, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:11:35PM +0100, edgar.soldin@web.de wrote: >> I had also problems to install grub2 to a partition boot record. It >> complained and wouldn't do it. > > Did you try using grub-install --force? >