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I mostly gentoo, but ubuntu has this marvellous tool 'boot-repair' |
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based on grub2 in the yannbuntu repo. With one click it finds all the |
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bootable partitions on your box, writes and installs the grub.cfg. |
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Next time you boot viola! there's all your OSes ready to be started. |
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On 6/25/12, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 06/24/2012 10:05 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> I only run Gentoo here, no windoze at all and no other distro |
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>> either. |
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> I agree with Canek. The only reason I switched to grub2 is that |
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> I have an outboard docking station that I don't always power on. |
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> That causes the BIOS to change the order of the drives when I |
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> reboot with the docking station powered up, and then the kernel |
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> can't find the boot drive. Very silly problem, really, and |
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> maybe this particular BIOS is dumber than most, dunno. |
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> But grub2 can search for the boot drive based on the disk label |
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> or UUID, so that particular problem is gone now. |
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