[arch-releng] grub install not listing partitions

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>
> Para: arch-releng at archlinux.org
> CC: 
> Enviado: jueves, 15 de diciembre de 2011 7:43
> Asunto: Re: [arch-releng] grub install not listing partitions
> 
> 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.
>

Yes, multiboot system, also know as multiboot protocol.

Reading files from another fs != multiboot system.