How do I move my panel?

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:50 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure about displays, but
>>
>> FYI, in the future, mount your partitions how they were on your running
>> system. Chroot. Ldconfig. Grub-install. Or dd if=/dev/disk
>> of=/boot/grub/stage1 bs=512 count=1
>> I'm not in front of a computer so you should probably confer with Google
>> on that dd.
>
> I tried grub-install. grub-install always ended with a seg-fault and
> no change to booting. I didn't try that "dd" trick--it didn't show up
> on my searches, only the grub-install trick. Does that work with
> grub2?
>
> I have yet to see an advantage to grub2. It still feels like going
> back to the bad old days of lilo.

The "dd trick" will only work if you've backed up the MBR with "dd
if=/dev/sda of=/boot/mbr.bak bs=512 count=1" and you'd only need to
restore 446 rather than 512 (especially if you've changed the
partitions) with "dd if=/boot/mbr.bak of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1".

Although I have my own complaints about grub2 (and its
"configurability"), I find the comparison with lilo inaccurate. Yes
there is an update-grub command, but there is one for grub1; this is
not new. The difference is that lilo writes to the MBR at every update
whereas update-grub writes to a regular file; otherwise both
update-grub and lilo are run automagically through hook scripts when a
kernel is upgraded. The difference between grub1 and grub2 is that, if
you're modifying "/boot/grub/menu.lst" or "/boot/grub/grub.cfg"
independently of a kernel upgrade, for grub1 you edit
"/boot/grub/menu.lst" and run update-grub and for grub2 you edit
"/etc/default/grub" and run update-grub. For grub1 and grub2 you can
edit "/boot/grub/menu.lst" or "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" directly but your
changes will be wiped out the next time that update-grub is run.