Re: Installing grub on lvm logical volume for chainloading into

[Florent Becker]

Le 05/12/2012 07:36, Chris Murphy a écrit :
> 
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 3:41 AM, Florent Becker <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hi list,
>>
>> my configuration is the following: I have a single hard disk with several lvm
>> logical volumes. I have a working grub in the mbr, managed by my debian
>> installation. I'd like to install nixOS onto another logical volume, and 
>> give it
>> its own instance of grub (so that the two distributions do not fight over the
>> configuration of grub when I upgrade either of them). The main grub would 
>> then
>> chainload the nixOS grub which would boot nixOS. The problem is I'm not sure
>> where/how to install that slave grub. Is it possible to put it somewhere on 
>> the
>> nixOS logical volume? How can I tell grub-install to do so?
> 
> Why not have the first GRUB use configfile to point to the grub.cfg for 
> nixOS, which can tell the first GRUB how to boot nixOS? It seems a little 
> weird to load one instance of GRUB to load yet another instance of GRUB.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#configfile
> 
> Chris Murphy

This seems like it will do the job perfectly,

many thanks,

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Florent