walt wrote:
About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list,
building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to
get it working for the *BSD family.
Then I got old and tired and I settled on gentoo. I deleted all the
other OS's from my machines, including (especially) Windows -- so I no
longer need to multiboot five different OS's -- and so I lost interest
in the sexy new features of grub2.
Lately, though, I've been using multiple USB sticks, and having them
plugged in at boot-time can confuse legacy grub into booting from the
wrong disk, i.e. not booting at all. Very annoying.
So, I installed grub-1.98 and I've found that it *does* find partitions
by UUID, and even by LABEL, amongst multiple disks. Very nifty.
Not so fast, though. I don't know how to write a grub.conf file that
can tell grub2 how to do that automatically so I don't need to type
commands at the interactive grub2 command prompt.
That's where you testosterone-pumped youngsters (Dale? Volker? Alan?
Neil? Anyone?) can help fix this basically silly problem.
grub2 is enough different from legacy grub to make the learning curve
very steep -- but I'm only about half-way up the curve and I'm fading
fast. (I usually unplug the offending USB stick and reboot :)
If anyone here is interested enough to spend some real time and effort
on grub2, I can offer a few pointers, but I'm not willing to do the real
grunt work myself.
Hm, sunset. Off to bed :)
I have not tried grub2 yet but I did fine these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
That has a lot of info on the grub2 conf file. It is called grub.cfg if
I read that correctly. There is a lot of info there. Seems a bit
complicated since I don't have it installed and can really follow what
they mean on things. This next one is a bit more basic tho:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2
This one seems to have a example and not quite so complicated.
http://grub.enbug.org/grub.cfg
Does those help any?
Dale
:-) :-)
