From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EKoHD-0005Gc-S1 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:36:03 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKoHC-0005GP-BI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:36:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKoFw-0004xs-HN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:34:48 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKoFr-0004jV-B8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:34:39 -0400 Received: from [128.237.157.15] (helo=magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EKnug-0002KL-3F for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:12:46 -0400 Received: (qmail 2922 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2005 02:12:49 -0000 Received: from bismuth.club.cc.cmu.edu (HELO necz1) (128.237.157.21) by magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu with SMTP; 29 Sep 2005 02:12:49 -0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 (debian 1:2.7.2-4) with nmh-1.1 From: Brian Sammon To: The development of GRUB 2 In-reply-to: <200509290112.15925.okuji@enbug.org> References: <874q861b0z.fsf@student.han.nl> <874q85ei7j.fsf@student.han.nl> <87zmpxcxl3.fsf@student.han.nl> <200509290112.15925.okuji@enbug.org> Comments: In-reply-to "Yoshinori K. Okuji" message dated "Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:12:15 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:12:48 -0400 Message-Id: Subject: booting GRUB2 from GRUB Re: AFFS support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:36:02 -0000 > For this, I made GRUB 2 bootable with GRUB. Since I'm chicken, I am still > scared of installing GRUB 2 in the MBR. With this new feature, I don't have > to install GRUB 2 for testing. Netbooting is another way, but this is easier > to set up. At the moment, the multiboot loader in GRUB 2 does not support the > a.out kludge, so GRUB 2 cannot boot GRUB 2, but GRUB Legacy can boot GRUB 2. With GRUB1, it could be loaded from another bootloader by installing it on the boot sector of a partition and chainloading it. Is this not the case with GRUB 2?