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From: Terry <ny6p01@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:30:21
Message-Id: 9a7a34f3-ab8d-4fea-bcce-d0c8110ed13c@email.android.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration by Peter Humphrey
1 Plus you don't technically need a menu at all. You can.use the grub cli to boot whichever partitions you have mind to.
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3 Terry
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5 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
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7 >On Friday 06 July 2012 01:18:42 Dale wrote:
8 >
9 >> But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then
10 >> what? You can't select to boot anything including the rescue system.
11 >
12 >Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the
13 >rescue system and chroot to it, rerun grub and reboot. Doesn't sound
14 >like much of a problem to me.
15 >
16 >> I want to be able to fix whatever happens. Grub has been good to me
17 >> so far but I have had a time when after the BIOS was done, I got
18 >> nothing, nothing at all. That would be something I would want to
19 >> know how to fix since I can't even boot to get help or search
20 >> google. If it isn't between my ears, I'm toast. Right now, there
21 >> is very little grub2 between my ears. Sometimes there is very
22 >> little at all between my ears. lol
23 >
24 >Not sure what we're arguing about here. My method suits me, yours you.
25 >:-)
26 >
27 >--
28 >Rgds
29 >Peter
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32 Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.