Re: Booting into Lenny from Etch (was: Problems installing Lenny's Grub boot loader to a partition)

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> On my PC I have many different partitions.  With Etch, I've never had
> problems installing the Grub boot loader to a partition at my pleasure and
> not to the master boot record.
>
> Today I installed Lenny for the first time, from a DVD set bought from an
> official Debian vendor, and: if I install the Grub boot loader to the mbr,
> everything seems all right; instead, if I install the Grub boot loader to a
> partition, then I can't boot into the system and get an
>
>  Error 2: Bad file or directory type
>
> Did anyone experience the same problem, why does it occur and how to solve
> it?



To say it more simply, the problem is that I can't boot into my Lenny partition
from my Etch partition, whose Grub boot loader is installed to the mbr.

Rodolfo