grub2 on partition and not on MBR

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/01/2010 06:17 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 04/01/2010 06:15 PM, Stefano Negro wrote:
>
>    
>> does anybody tested Lucid beta 1 for what concern the GRUB installation
>> not in the MBR?
>> I see bug already opened by me.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/546466
>>      
> I do not fully understand your problem. Looked at your bug report and
> still do not understand. (My english is probably no better than yours.)
> By looking at your other message on wireless driver, I take it you have
> Jaunty installed too.
>
> I'll try to make some sense out of all this and I *assume* the
> following. Please confirm if assumptions are correct or not.
>
> o You have Jaunty installed and that grub is set to mbr.
> o You've installed Lucid and that is not set to mbr, and you've left the
> Jaunty grub set to mbr.
> o When grub starts, you do not see Lucid 'selection', but you have no
> problems booting up Jaunty or presumably other OS's.
>
>
> Please let us know the following....
> o Is Jaunty (boot) grub2 or grub-legacy? (you can check at Jaunty by
> "grub-install -v"
> o Is Lucid partition ext4? (default is ext4), If unsure, list output of
> "sudo blkid".
>
> To save some time, and quite possibly solving the problem, boot into
> Jaunty and at terminal, type "sudo grub-install /dev/sda".
>
> Regards - Goh Lip
>
>
>    
     I speak and write English well because it is my native language 
(American English). I looked at the bug and it says the user of lucid 
beta 1 could not get grub2 (the only choice for Lucid) to mount it's 
grub to a partition, not the MBR. He tried to put it on /dev/sda3 
because he has Windows using the MBR.

     This means he does not understand how grub works. Grub can and will 
boot his Windows.

73 Karl