Re: Installing grub on lvm logical volume for chainloading into

[Chris Murphy]

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