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On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:10:44 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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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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> It should be a front-end for grub2-mkconfig, which in Gentoo uses |
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> os-prober: |
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As does Ubuntu. But os-prober is used to find non-Linux installations. |
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There are other scripts to detect Linux and Xen installs. All of these |
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are configurable, which is one of the strengths of GRUB2, it is not a |
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Linux bootloader, it is more universal and adapts itself well to the wide |
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variety of systems it may be used on. This makes it a much better choice |
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for distros. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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In the begining, there was nothing. |
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