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On Tuesday 11 January 2011 15:18:53 Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 22:51, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > walt wrote: |
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> >> On 01/10/2011 01:37 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> >>> pk wrote: |
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> >>>> On 2011-01-10 14:05, walt wrote: |
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> >>>> You guys may be losing interest in grub2, but I'm having fun, so... |
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> >> |
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> >> Although I've not been involved in this discussion I still enjoy your |
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> >> |
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> >>>> progress (I've been meaning to try out grub2 myself since grub1 is |
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> >>>> basically EOLed but haven't had the time yet)... please continue! |
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> >> |
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> >> Same here. I'm noticing how complicated this thing is. |
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> >> |
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> >> I'm sorry I've given that impression -- the complicated part is finding |
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> >> comprehensible examples to copy, but thanks to your previous links I'm |
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> >> gaining on it. I'm now able to write a functioning grub.cfg file for |
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> >> grub2, but I don't want to publish prematurely ;) |
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> > |
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> > It wasn't just you, it was other things I read too. |
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> > |
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> >> Does it have audio too? |
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> >> |
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> >> Yes, but very primitive. No speech, but you can give it a series of |
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> >> numbers representing tones and durations -- to make it sound like a |
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> >> video game arcade. If you really want to. But I don't. |
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> > |
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> > Oh God, it can make sounds. O_O |
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> My first impression of grub2 was PAIN. |
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> In a foolish attempt to "beautify" my Desktop, I thought about installing a |
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> clean framebuffer logo for boot, and, why not, beautify the bootloader too. |
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> Gosh, 2 hours spent in an effort to configure, useless. I don't remember |
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> the exact error, but an hour of trying and I quit. Well, it messed the |
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> whole boot, so it took me twice the time spent on configuring to get rid |
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> of the thing. |
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> |
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> I never realized how happy I was with simple grub. Gosh, I even missed LILO |
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> while fighting with grub2. And LILO was a pain too, but I knew that when I |
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> first had to use it. |
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Same here, I messed up an installation trying different things because the |
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grub2 splash would not work. Probably early days back then and this was a |
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feature not working as it should. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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