GRUB 2 now default for new installations

[Markus Hitter]

Am 11.06.2009 um 10:35 schrieb Felix Miata:

> On 2009/06/11 09:20 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter composed:
>
>> Additionally, if you have more than one installation of Ubuntu on the
>> same platter, you really want to share /boot with both installations.
>
> That's asking for trouble, unless only one or fewer installations  
> actually
> mount the "/boot" on /boot.

Am 11.06.2009 um 14:47 schrieb Derek Broughton:

>

> Additionally, if you have more than one installation of Ubuntu on the
> same platter, you really want to share /boot with both installations.

Be assured I wouldn't write that if this wouldn't have solved all the  
trouble I had with two /boot's before. It works without manual  
intervention for half a dozen kernel updates now.


> Astute multibooters whose other options include a non-Linux OS do  
> _not_ place
> Grub in the MBR. Better to make that the universal default, never  
> addressing
> via MBR, instead leaving the MBR code generic, and using that  
> generic code
> with a primary partition containing a Grub that _no_ installed Linux
> automatially configures. My Grub primaries don't get mounted as / 
> boot by any
> Linux installation. I have upwards of 20 multiboot systems, and all  
> use
> generic MBR code.

Well, as there is no "generic" MBR, what MBR do you use? The Windows'  
one? Mac OS X's, *BSD's?


> I don't find having multiple /boot partitions to be a problem, but  
> normally
> find one real "/boot" to be sufficient, allowing each of the /  
> partitions to
> provide a home for one set of kernels and one menu.lst that install  
> scripts
> can cope with. To get there, I both partition and install Grub on a  
> primary
> using a live CD boot, _before_ starting _any_ OS installation program.

Can't confirm that. Using the Ubuntu Live-Install-CD, an already  
existing /boot in one of the partitions isn't recognized. Manual  
voodoo is exactly what I'm trying to avoid.


Markus

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