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About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list, |
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building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to |
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get it working for the *BSD family. |
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Then I got old and tired and I settled on gentoo. I deleted all the |
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other OS's from my machines, including (especially) Windows -- so I no |
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longer need to multiboot five different OS's -- and so I lost interest |
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in the sexy new features of grub2. |
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Lately, though, I've been using multiple USB sticks, and having them |
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plugged in at boot-time can confuse legacy grub into booting from the |
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wrong disk, i.e. not booting at all. Very annoying. |
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So, I installed grub-1.98 and I've found that it *does* find partitions |
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by UUID, and even by LABEL, amongst multiple disks. Very nifty. |
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Not so fast, though. I don't know how to write a grub.conf file that |
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can tell grub2 how to do that automatically so I don't need to type |
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commands at the interactive grub2 command prompt. |
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That's where you testosterone-pumped youngsters (Dale? Volker? Alan? |
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Neil? Anyone?) can help fix this basically silly problem. |
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grub2 is enough different from legacy grub to make the learning curve |
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very steep -- but I'm only about half-way up the curve and I'm fading |
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fast. (I usually unplug the offending USB stick and reboot :) |
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If anyone here is interested enough to spend some real time and effort |
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on grub2, I can offer a few pointers, but I'm not willing to do the real |
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grunt work myself. |
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Hm, sunset. Off to bed :) |
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