Re: [DNG] Lost in grub

2017-08-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:40:00 +0200, Edward wrote in message : > 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

[DNG] Lost in grub

2017-08-29 Thread Edward Bartolo
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

Re: [DNG] Lost in grub

2017-08-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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.

[DNG] Lost in grub

2017-08-28 Thread Edward Bartolo
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

Re: [DNG] Lost in grub

2017-08-28 Thread Simon Hobson
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

Re: [DNG] Lost in grub

2017-08-28 Thread Simon Hobson
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?

Re: [DNG] Lost in grub

2017-08-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
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

Re: [DNG] Lost in grub

2017-08-28 Thread fsmithred
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