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Apparently, though unproven, at 01:36 on Sunday 09 January 2011, walt did |
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opine thusly: |
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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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Might be worth learning how this new-fangled boot loader works. |
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Right now I'm having Hercules' own fight trying to get Android Donut[1] and |
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Froyo triple-booting on an Ubuntu 10.10 netbook. Ubuntu uses grub2 these days |
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and I think I want to keep that (makes updates easier that way - the Android |
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stuff is a manual update anyway). |
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Let's keep the thread open and add stuff as we find it. |
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[1] Yes, Android now runs on x86 :-) http://www.android-x86.org |
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[2] I'llet "testosterone-pumped" passed (I'm the BOFH at work) but I dunno |
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about "youngsters", this here fellow has grey in his beard. Actually he has a |
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grey beard with a few bits of brown in it :-) |
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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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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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