problem with GRUB

[Naja Melan]

>
> There were two ways to resolve your problem - take the USB drive out of
> the
> boot sequence, install grub to the internal drive, and tell grub to boot
> off (hd2) [which I'm not even sure is possible, as grub may not be able to
> find the USB drive] or make the USB drive the first bootable drive,
> install
> grub there, and boot off (hd0).  For the installer to be able to do this,
> it needs to ask which of these options you're going to use before it
> constructs the menu.lst file, but I agree it's feasible.
> --
> derek
>

Well, don't worry to much anymore, my problem is solved now, i manually
changed the menu.lst. I even have a xubuntu on another partition on the same
usb hd now. That installer also failed to generate a wording boot sector,
but id did generate its own menu.lst, from which i took the entries for
xubuntu, and added them to the kubuntu grub which still functions, changing
to hd0 again, and i have a super multiboot....lol

about the installer. It is not at all complicated.

01. It should just ask you "from which hd (or possibly other device maybe)
would you like to boot into your new installation" (this is the already
present little box which now reads "(hd0)", the rather ill-conceived way to
present the choice to the user, so ill conceived that it actually confused
the developer )
02. If boot hd == kubuntu install partition hd
      then generate menu.lst with hd0 instead of normal counting order
03. Else use normal counting order.... (well in fact im unsure how grub
counts if it is not installed on the primary master??? That is something to
check for the person who writes the install wizard innit?, basically it
looks like grub was made a bit in an unfortunate way, as if they didn't
forsee at the moment of development that it could ever work from another
disk than the primary master. If you install it on the primary master, no
counting confusion occurs. However i think if you base your software on
that, you compensate for something like that behind the scenes, no? If it is
possible that is. You look over the possible scenarios and see if you can
generate a working menu.lst file for everyone. If not, when a user tries to
choose one of the scenarios for which it is impossible to guarantee success,
you warn them and explain them the limitations.)

Well sorry about that. It's how i would do it. I don't want to tell people
what to do, but it might inspire someone in making more userfriendly stuff.

thx for your help and time,
greets,
Naja
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