On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:40:00 +0200, Edward wrote in message
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> My setup of GRUP is more of a policy rather than something special.
>
> I keep with the conviction that the bootloader is the most important
> piece of software
My setup of GRUP is more of a policy rather than something special.
I keep with the conviction that the bootloader is the most important
piece of software after UEFI/EFI/BIOS. The reason is because a
bootloader is what loads an OS without which a user is at a loss.
To achieve the above, I keep a
On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:51:34 -0400, fsmithred wrote in message
<83f4fdb4-aa61-965e-6ec0-9fc84f851...@gmail.com>:
> On 08/28/2017 10:55 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Grub seems a lot more complicated now than it used to be a few
> > years ago when I last upgraded Debian from one release to another.
GRUB complicated, Nah!
If you are using an MBR formatted disk it should be quite easy to tame
down GRUB. What I do is keep it tied in a locked cage where it cannot
do any harm! Just use a dedicated partition for GRUB. In it install a
very minimal Debian or whatever Linux OS, boot it, install GRUB
And the other option is to chroot and update/install grub from there (not mine,
just copied from another list) :
mkdir /sysroot
mount /dev/your-root-dev /sysroot
mount /dev/your-boot-dev /sysroot/boot
mount --bind /dev /sysroot/dev
mount --bind /sys /sysroot/sys
mount --bind /proc /sysroot/proc
Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Do I understand correctly that grub-install will scan my only hard
> drive looking for (at least) bootable Linux systems? And that as a
> result, running grub-install on the old system will detect both and
> create a grub menu that contains both?
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 01:51:34PM -0400, fsmithred wrote:
> On 08/28/2017 10:55 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > Grub seems a lot more complicated now than it used to be a few years
> > ago when I last upgraded Debian from one release to another.
> >
> > My usual procedure is to copy the system to
On 08/28/2017 10:55 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Grub seems a lot more complicated now than it used to be a few years
> ago when I last upgraded Debian from one release to another.
>
> My usual procedure is to copy the system to new partitions (adjusting
> the size according to what I actually