Re: Grub rescue

[David WE Roberts]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:21:07 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

> В Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:17:32 +0000 (UTC)
> David WE Roberts <address@hidden> пишет:
> 
> 
>> Just to double check - if I use
>> 
>> grub-install --modules=part_gpt /dev/sda
>> 
>> does this add support for GPT as well as MBR or does it add support for
>> GPT instead of MBR?
>> 
>> 
> It adds named modules in addition to whatever it put there by default.
> So you will have both MBR and GPT (as long as your /boot/grub is on MBR
> disk).

Oops!

/boot/grub is on GPT disc, as part of the Ubuntu install.

I am experimenting further, but is it an absolute constraint that if you 
are booting grub off an MBR disc then /boot/grub must be on an MBR disc?

Digging myself in ever deeper.

David