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On 06/10/2012 03:33 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> That has *got* to be the first time ever someone could validly call |
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>> grub "simple" and "well-documented" |
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>> Usually, grub is anything but :-) |
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> Well documentation is pretty good me thinks, or at least GRUB legacy was. I |
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> haven't yet delved at any depth into GRUB2, which is of course more |
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> complicated than its predecessor. |
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> PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more verbose |
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> output on the console while *ubuntu is booting? |
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I'm no expert on ubuntu, though I update my ubuntu virtualbox guest a few times |
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every year (hoping against hope that my wife will abandon her infatuation with |
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Bill Gates and join us). (Fat chance.) |
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The simple grub2 shell commands have a good deal in common with legacy grub: |
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When in doubt hit "c" or "e", then hit "tab" for a (long) list of grub2 commands. |
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