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On 18 Jul 2007, at 16:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>> I don't know. I think the overview is pretty clear <http:// |
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>> www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Overview>, and leads into |
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>> the remainder of the documentation quite well. |
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> ... The big stumbling block is getting people to grasp that grub |
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> is not an OS, it's not a linux app as linux is not in memory yet. And |
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> yet, it can still read files and dirs that linux put there, and it's |
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> config file read at run time is a linux file. |
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Um... surely the config file (um... grub.conf, right?) is _just_ a file. |
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It's not a Linux file, it's not a GRUB file, it's just a text file, |
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which can be edited by any operating system that can write to the |
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partition. |
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I have in the past considered putting grub.conf on a FAT32 partition |
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- I'm not 101% sure that'd work but I've never tried because I never |
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actually saw the usefulness. |
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> It's enough to make the |
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> average person's head spin (and does) - it can easily take two hours |
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> for me to get a class full of reasonably bright Windows techies to |
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> grasp ... |
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You clearly have more experience than I do with teaching novices |
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about Linux. |
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You might ask them to consider - as a teaching aid - the Windows XP |
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boot.ini file (I believe this is retired in Vista). |
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Boot.ini can be edited in Windows' Notepad in much the same way |
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grub.conf can be edited with vi or nano. Very few Windows users will |
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have any experience of doing more than removing an extra line (where |
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the system was dual-booting to a previous installation of Millennium |
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Edition, for instance) or reducing the countdown time before |
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automatically booting the default entry, but if your students are |
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bright then they will be aware of the boot.ini and will have done |
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that much. |
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Stroller. |
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