On Friday 21 October 2005 09:38 pm, Paul Bolle wrote: > 1) Both these commands (entered at the GRUB 0.95 command line) will get > me the GRUB 1.91 prompt : > - kernel (hd0,2)/boot/grub/core.img > boot > - chainload (hd0,2)+1 > boot > > Am I correct in thinking these commands are essentially the same now? > GRUB2 seems to launch identically with both commands. Or are there side > effects I have overlooked?
When you install GRUB into (hd0,2), they are the same. > 2) If there are no (serious) side effects, would it be an idea to add an > "--no-boot" option to grub-setup? This option should then ensure that no > boot sectors will be changed so the only the effect of grub-setup would > be some (small but important) changes to a (specified or default) > core.img. This should make it somewhat safer to try GRUB2 (as MBR and > boot sectors will be left unchanged) without risking your current setup, > shouldn't it? In this case, you can invoke grub-mkimage directly. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
