On 29/01/13 17:27, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2013-01-29 17:14 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
I have been knocking my head against the brick wall trying to understand how I can install multiple OSs with grub/grub2, and have used very, VERY, bad language directed at whoever came up with the concept of grub2!
I have sent this person to the lowest level of the lowest sub-basement of hell after I was stupid enough to believe the blurb that grub2 was the future and used it when I installed oS 12.2 :-( .
In trying to understand grub2 I came across this:
http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/down/articles/LSK_multi_distro_install_US.pd...
and the comment by Hans above re using the single command "grub2-install" made me read the above pdf again. And again.....and again....and again.....
(Whoever wrote that pdf article appears to have had it edited, or something, and it is not a smooth flowing article but possibly a combination of 2 separate versions of the article melded together.)
I am now starting to work out what is necessary to be done to harness grub2.
I am at a point now where tomorrow I will attempt to perform what that pdf describes has to be done to be able to install and boot multiple OSs using grub2.
Using grub2 sounds like a piece of cake.
But then, everything is easy when you know what you are doing, right? :-)
Tomorrow then is D-DAY!
Take a look at https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2013-January/022146.html and its thread before you start your D-day. It really does look at least theoretically simple; at least, if you aren't already intimately familiar with Grub Legacy, and you stick to the Grub2 scripts instead of doing it the old fashioned way as I do with Grub Legacy. Other than out of curiosity, I really have no use to spend time with Grub2.
Thanks for the link above. I shall look at it ASAP (after dinner which is getting close to being served). The only trouble is is that grub legacy is no longer supported, and the antagonism to switch to grub from grub legacy is sounding very much like the situation where people were (still are) arguing about KDE3 versus KDE4. BC -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.10.0 & kernel 3.7.4-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org