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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> |
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To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:07 AM |
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Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub |
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<snip> |
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and Duncan opined: |
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> Any insights into why nobody seems to be doing the LiveCD/DVD GRUB boot > |
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> now, and why everyone's using ISOLinux instead? Is it just that ISOLinux |
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> is the tried and true method that everyone was using before GRUB became |
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> an option, and new guys are simply copying stuff from other LiveCDs that |
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> obviously works? Seems to me the direct-boot emulation-less way would be |
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> MUCH simpler and more flexible, so why isn't everyone (or even a suitable |
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> number of "anyones") using it? |
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> I've on my list of things to do to go ask the Gentoo releng team as |
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> well. Why aren't /they/ using grub, since it's the default once the |
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> system is installed. Seems it would be more efficient than shipping |
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> ISOLinux and then using it for nothing other than the CD/DVD boot, since |
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> grub could at least potentially be dual-purposed both to booting the CD, |
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> and to installing directly from there to the new system, as well. |
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The Gparted LiveCD has switched from isolinux to grub sometime in the last |
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few months. Perhaps a trend is starting? |
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The grub boot menu on this latest Gparted LiveCD does what I set out to do |
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when I got into writing a grub boot cd. In explanation, it will act as a |
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rescue CD with premade menu choices that will boot the first hard drive MBR, |
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first hard drive's first, second, third, or fourth partition, second hard |
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drive MBR. or the second hard drive's first partition. Thus, without |
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advertising it, the Gparted gang have produced a grub rescue cd. The only |
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lack is premade menu entry(ies) to setup grub on the hard drive(s). However |
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dropping from the gparted boot menu into the command line to type : |
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root (hd0,0) |
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setup (hd0) |
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with the knowledge that BIOS and grub are in agreement as to which drive is |
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hd0 does not seem to be a big deal. |
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Clonezilla, which claims Norton ghost type powers to clone drives and make |
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drive images (including over the network) is also now on the Gparted LiveCD. |
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Gparted LiveCD is really really on my must have list with this edition. |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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> -- |
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