Re: Managing multi grub installs

[Rustom Mody]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Jordan Uggla <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Rustom Mody <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> menuentry "Debian bootloader" {
>>>   search --set --label Debian500G
>>>   multiboot /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img
>>> }
>>
>> Tried this. I get:
>>
>> Welcome to Grub (in inverse video)
>> error file not found
>> Entering rescue mode
>> grub rescue>
>>
>> How I tried:
>>
>> At the grub prompt I gave the following
>> multiboot (hd0,5)/boot/grub/core.img
>>
>
> Note that "root=(something,else); multiboot
> (hd0,5)/boot/grub/core.img" is *not* functionally equivalent to
> "root=(hd0,5); multiboot (hd0,5)/boot/grub/core.img". The multiboot
> loader actually uses the value of $root and passes that information
> along to the kernel its loading, in the case of loading grub it's used
> to find the correct device value for $prefix.
>
> Try actually using "search --set=root --fs-uuid=UUID_HERE; multiboot
> /boot/grub/core.img".

Same result; viz. I get this

Welcome to Grub (in inverse video)
error file not found
Entering rescue mode
grub rescue>

Slightly different words if I put --fs-uuid=UUID_HERE
Exactly the above when there is no '=' sign

Also tried with label (which is my original) -- same thing

I preceded that line by a
insmod multiboot