Chainloading GRUB2 from BURG
- by WindowsEscapist
I have an old PC with Puppy Linux in addition to Ubuntu and Windows XP. THis creates a LOT of menu entries (all of which I would like to keep):
Ubuntu 10.04
Ubuntu Recovery Mode
Memtest x86
Memtest Serial
Windows XP Pro
Precise Puppy Linux
Precise Puppy TORAM
Puppy 4.3.1
Puppy 4.3.1 TORAM
Plop Boot Manager (for booting to USB, PC doesn't have BIOS option).
Now, in my fancy shiny laptop I've gotten really attached to BURG, and would like a setup where I have a Windows icon, an Ubuntu icon, and an arrow that chainloads GRUB2 so that I can boot from USB or run Puppy if need be (all these entries will obviously not fit into the BURG theme I use, Lightness).
The problem is, GRUB2 can't install the the beginning of a partition like it used to be able to (I am reluctant to specify andything with --force at the end), at least, without warning that warn: This is a BAD idea!. So I'm kind of at a loss here. I can't see how the folding option would work, because all of those other options would have the same icon once I unfolded (Lightness is non-text-based).
If I do embed GRUB using grub-install /dev/sdax --force, how do I chainload it with BURG? Is there another way?
