On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
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> I notice some comments that menu.lst is "legacy GRUB", and GRUB2 has
> gone off the deep end with a ton of config files.
Unless you want to customize your grub menu in a way not desired or
anticipated by the grub2
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
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> GRUB2 counts partitions from 1, but drives from 0 (a brilliant
> decision) so these would be (hd1,6) and (hd1,7).
They should've changed hd0/hd1/... to hda/hdb/... when they changed
(hd0,msdos1) to correspond to
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 22:39:09 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > Why are you using GRUB now, does LILO not work on USB sticks?
>
> Apparently, further development on LILO has ceased according to...
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=LILO-Bootloader-EOY
> I don't need it NOW, but I
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:02:21AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 08:59:43 +, Mick wrote:
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> > The nomenclature for partions 6 and 7 on the USB key will be (hd1,5)
> > and (hd1,6) respectively, as long as the USB key has been detected as
> > the 2nd drive on the PC
On Sunday 22 Jan 2017 11:02:21 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 08:59:43 +, Mick wrote:
> > The nomenclature for partions 6 and 7 on the USB key will be (hd1,5)
> > and (hd1,6) respectively, as long as the USB key has been detected as
> > the 2nd drive on the PC (/dev/sdb).
>
>
On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 08:59:43 +, Mick wrote:
> The nomenclature for partions 6 and 7 on the USB key will be (hd1,5)
> and (hd1,6) respectively, as long as the USB key has been detected as
> the 2nd drive on the PC (/dev/sdb).
GRUB2 counts partitions from 1, but drives from 0 (a brilliant
On Saturday 21 Jan 2017 00:44:15 Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've been using LILO for over 15 years, but I'm a total newbie at
> GRUB2, so the following may be totally out to lunch. Would the following
> setup work for a USB key with multiple partitions with a different OS or
> variant in each
I've been using LILO for over 15 years, but I'm a total newbie at
GRUB2, so the following may be totally out to lunch. Would the following
setup work for a USB key with multiple partitions with a different OS or
variant in each partition?
GRUB2 in MBR
* extended partition 1 covers entire USB
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