[arch-releng] grub install not listing partitions

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 15.12.2011 16:13, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
> On 12/15/2011 09:36 AM, Heiko Baums wrote:
>> Am Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:55:50 +0100
>> schrieb Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org>:
>>
>>> More importantly: Don't use grub, use syslinux (which will always
>>> install in the /boot partition).
>> But syslinux can't handle multi-boot systems. Or is that fixed in the
>> meantime?
>>
>> Heiko
>>
> 
> Yes, since syslinux-3.08 (05/2005) with com32 module mboot.c32 ;)

No, mboot.c32 can chainload "multiboot kernels". However, these kernels
still need to be on the syslinux home partition! In theory, you could
use this to chainload grub2, but it fails for very annoying technical
reasons.

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