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On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 02:55, Jan Wells wrote: |
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> You're using grub. Here, multi-boot is achieved via System Commander, |
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> with lilo residing under /boot on the second of my two SCSI drives. The |
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> arrangement causes grief with kernel updates. Or in my hands, it does. |
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> How would gentoo react to being installed on the second drive, I |
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> wonder? grub would need to be installed on the first partion of the |
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> first drive (along with three DOSs plus NT)? I've become attached to my |
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> familiar System Commander, but maybe you would advise getting rid of it |
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> in favor of grub. |
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Grub is pretty awesome Jan. I don't know too much about system commander, |
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but the great thing about grub is that you can change things on the fly. |
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For example you can create a new kernel and boot to it interactively instead |
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of adding it to the menu. Perhaps you add a friends hard drive, and need to |
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boot off it for some obscure reason ... you can do it interactively from the |
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boot prompt. Grub is good. Check out this grub tutorial by Daniel Robbins: |
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http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/linux-onlinecourse-bytit |
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le/0F1731DC664023B7862569D0005C44AF?OpenDocument |
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You have to register with developerworks but it is worth it. Of course |
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check out the GNU Grub home page: |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ |
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and the original grub documentation: |
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http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/ |
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Don't switch to anything you're not comfortable with, but I highly recommend |
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grub. By the way, this thread may not be appropriate for the developer |
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list, I think it belongs in gentoo-users. |
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meekrob |
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