On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:02:21AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 08:59:43 +0000, 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 decision) > so these would be (hd1,6) and (hd1,7). > > 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&px=LILO-Bootloader-EOY I don't need it NOW, but I do want to be ready for when I do run into a situation that LILO can't handle. If I'm going to be playing around and learning and possibly screwing up, I'd rather do it to a USB key install than to a hard drive install. I notice some comments that menu.lst is "legacy GRUB", and GRUB2 has gone off the deep end with a ton of config files. Is syslinux/extlinux still supported? I wonder if that might be simpler while still useful. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
