On Sat, 31 Jan 2026, D. R. Evans wrote:
[big snip]
Several times over the past couple of weeks I have found myself longing for a
good old-fashioned O'Reilly book on GRUB (for which the cover would be
obvious :-) ), but it seems that there was never such a thing -- and in any
case it would be long out of date now. And that kind of detailed book
dedicated to a relatively small aspect of Linux it seems is no longer
produced or updated.
FWIW, there is
$ info grub
which on my system presents at least several hours of interesting
reading, apparently installed by the grub2-common package.
I do wish that I at least understood what made my situation turned out to be
so unresolvable. But at some point one just throws in the towel: when I
looked around the room and saw a multitude of sheets of e-mail printouts
scattered around and covered with scribbled annotations, to the point that I
could no longer keep track, I realised that, as they say, discretion is the
better part of valour, and I should start afresh with a new system.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help. It's quite frustrating that I can't
change the subject to include "SOLVED", but I suppose that's life.
It has been an interesting thread to follow (I haven't yet had time to
pay it the attention I would like).
Doc
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