Re: problem installing grub to linux mint partition

[David H. Durgee]

John Little wrote:
> > ubiquity... It also appears that it does allow me to tell it not to install a 
> > boot loader at all when invoked from a terminal session
> You can, start ubiquity in a terminal with the -b switch; if booted to kde:
>
> /usr/bin/ubiquity -b kde_ui
>
> That's not documented at man ubiquity, but I've done it.
>
> Regards, John Little
I am now in the process of configuring sylvia on my multiboot system for 
use in place of my maya partition.

To accomplish this I first created a logical partition for sylvia with 
DFSee and then used mkfs to format it jfs from my maya system. I next 
booted the sylvia Live DVD, opened a terminal window and then executed 
"ubiquity -b" as suggested. I selected my swap partition and new sylvia 
root partition and did the installation.

Once the install completed I rebooted the system and from a grub prompt 
manually booted sylvia. I went through the initial setups and updates 
there. After completing these I then ran:

sudo grub-install --force /dev/sda15
sudo update-grub

I then restarted the system and was then able to start sylvia directly 
from IBM Boot Manager.

Finally I ran:

sudo chattr +i /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img

Per Arch Linux Wiki GRUB Tips & Tricks this should prevent the critical 
blocklist for GRUB from being modified and breaking GRUB.

Hopefully this will help anyone else in a similar situation with current 
mint distros.

Dave