Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to do GRUB2 multiple partions on USB key?

2017-01-25 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to do GRUB2 multiple partions on USB key?

2017-01-25 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 6:02 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to do GRUB2 multiple partions on USB key?

2017-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to do GRUB2 multiple partions on USB key?

2017-01-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:02:21AM +, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to do GRUB2 multiple partions on USB key?

2017-01-22 Thread Mick
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). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to do GRUB2 multiple partions on USB key?

2017-01-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] How to do GRUB2 multiple partions on USB key?

2017-01-22 Thread Mick
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

[gentoo-user] [OT] How to do GRUB2 multiple partions on USB key?

2017-01-20 Thread Walter Dnes
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