GRUB2 targets

[MARTIN DIXON]

Hi :)
What I really enjoy about this system is that you can ask one perfectly reasonable, but perhaps unnecessary question 

and get a fascinating array of very useful information back!  

However, I think I have worked out why I could see the link address not the screenshot at that time -

so here's another (perhaps unnecessary) question when (the first time after the OS has been loaded) you first load the GRUB2 page (which is a big one) 
is there significant time delay during which the link and not the shot are visible?  Its not vital to get an answer!.

Martin



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 From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: Phill Whiteside <PhillW at Ubuntu.com>; Martin Dixon <mh.dixon at btinternet.com> 
Cc: Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 11:20
Subject: Re: GRUB2 targets
 


Hi :)
+1
That looks right to me too.  I've 1 machine that has a nice wallpaper behind it but even so that screenshot is better.  

What happens nowadays after several kernels have been added?  

When you run any Gnu&Linux system the upgrades/updates tool adds newer and newer kernels but the system rarely has any automatic way of removing the old ones.  It's a bit like system restore points in Windows in that if your system suddenly becomes unbootable past the boot-menu then you can just try one of the older kernels and "ta'da" suddenly it all works, allegedly.  So, it used to be that you'd get a longer and longer tail in the boot-menu so finding Windows at the bottom became increasingly awkward.  

The Grub2 mailing lists say that recent versions of Grub2 have tucked all those
 extras away into sub-menus off the main boot-menu, or something like that.  I tend to use Janitor to clear my system and keep forgetting to check how the boot-menu looks before getting rid of those extra kernels.  

Regards from
Tom :)  




________________________________
 From: Phill Whiteside <PhillW at Ubuntu.com>
To: Martin Dixon <mh.dixon at btinternet.com> 
Cc: Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Monday, 23 September 2013, 15:09
Subject: Re: GRUB2 targets
 


that looks pretty much like my grub screen (except I have a couple of more instances of operating systems installed and available to boot).

Regards,

Phill.



On 23 September 2013 08:19, Martin Dixon <mh.dixon at btinternet.com> wrote:

Hi all.
>
>Any suggestions as to what the reference at the bottom of the first para of
>
>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
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>( http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1353953772.png )
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>refers to?
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>Martin
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