Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

[James Wall]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote:
>>
>>>> The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all
>>>> the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost
>>>> tolerable.
>>>
>>> <  cough cough>   Care to share how you did that little trick?  I like
>>> to see the stuff scrolling up myself.
>>
>> Hold Shift during boot to bring up the GRUB menu, press E to edit, remove
>> the splash and quiet options and press Ctrl-X to boot. It's almost the
>> same as legacy GRUB, with just enough changes to confuse people :(
>>
>> Tp make it permanent, edit /etc/default/grub, remove the splash and quiet
>> options, save the file and run grub2-mkconfig (or the wrapper script that
>> Ubuntu provide, update-grub?).
>>
>>> Is there a way after the install to add a Windoze OS to grub and all?
>>> I unplugged the windoze drive to make sure it didn't mess that up OR I
>>> mess up something. So, grub, or some bootloader, is installed on the
>>> wrong drive in this case.
>>
>> Plug the drive back in and run grub2-mkconfig. It will generate a new
>> menu with a Windows option. No manual editing needed.
>>
>>
>
> Oh nooooooooo.  It can't be that easy.  O_O  I'm going to screw something up
> you watch.  lol
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
> Oh, how do I boot it the first time tho?  When I plug the windoze drive up,
> there won't be a grub.  Yet anyway.  Hmmmmm.
>
>
Boot off the Ubuntu disc and chroot to the new install to run the commands.


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