On Tuesday 08 September 2009 17:23:37 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 07 September 2009 19:09:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 07 September 2009 17:39:06 Dale wrote: > > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > >> On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > >>> On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > >> > > > >> Um, dude.... grub selects a kernel. Or an OS. But never a DE. > > > >> The dm does that. > > > > > > > > Depends how you have it set up. On this box I have two separate > > > > installations: one with kde:3 and one with kde:4. I select the one I > > > > want with grub entries. > > > > > > Could you post your grub.conf? I'd like to see how you do that. > > > > Well, I'd do it with a customized init that launches a dm preset to a > > specific xsession. Or selects a specific .xinitrc. > > In answer to Dale, here's my grub.conf. Do you (Alan) think your way is > better, or simpler? (Hope you can sort the wrapping out.)
I don't see anything there that selects KDE-3 versus KDE-4 Apparently, you have two gentoo installs on the same machine: a regular one with / on /dev/md0 a test system with / on /dev/sdc3 I presume you have KDE-3 on one and KDE-4 on the other. This is purely and only a happy circumstance and has nothing to do with selecting a DE from grub. The entry you select at boot-time runs whatever system you configured, which in turn runs whatever it has on it. You could remove KDE-3 and install OpenBox instead, you are still not selecting OpenBox from the grub screen. > > [...] > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.30-r6 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x31A > video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap fbcon=scrollback:128k splash=silent > memory_corruption_check=1 > > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.30-r6, no X > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x317 > video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent softlevel=no-x > memory_corruption_check=1 > > title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.30-r6, no network > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x317 > video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent softlevel=nonetwork > memory_corruption_check=1 > > [...] > > title=Gentoo Test System 2.6.30-r6 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-testsys root=/dev/sdc3 > vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent > > title=Gentoo Test System 2.6.30-r6, no X > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-testsys root=/dev/sdc3 > vga=0x317 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent softlevel=no-x > > title=Gentoo Test System 2.6.30-r6, no network > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-testsys root=/dev/sdc3 > vga=0x317 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent softlevel=nonetwork > > [...] > -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
