[aklug] Re: GRUB 2

On Friday 02 October 2009, scott@ravenmoonart.com wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed and used GRUB 2?
>
> I am running 9.04 and Win RC 7, but have had to do some interesting
> things to get it to work with my system.
>
> I am running a 64 bit system (gigabyte M/B) and have way to many HDD,
> so I have space and can do a complete reinstall if needed, but want to
> be running 9.04 and 7 when I am done.
>
> Scott

 short answer ... yes. But it 'just works' so I am far from 'knowing' all
the functions, which are more numerous than before. Oh, there is a pretty
splash screen now :-)

 I used it on a dual boot of Debian Stable and a partion running Debian
Testing, Testing has grub 2. Grub 2 is 'grub-pc' in Debians naming
scheme. In Debian 'os-prober' is not a depends, it will not automagically
get installed when you install 'grub-pc' . On my box this manifested by
not including some entries in grub.cfg, which by the way
replaces 'menu.list in ~/grub.

so : install 'grub-pc', 'os-prober'

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Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: (907)276-0461
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