new Koala grub info?

Paul Cartwright ubuntu at pcartwright.com
Thu Nov 19 21:54:24 GMT 2009


On Thu November 19 2009, Phillip Tarrant wrote:
> Did you upgrade to koala? or do a fresh install?

I have a separate /home partition, so I always do a new install..
then I just reinstall anything I had that WASN'T part of the normal install.

> Koala installs grub2 if doing a fresh install...

right, that's what happened to me :)

> i am 99% sure it doesn't update grub if you do an upgrade.
>
> I upgraded as to avoid using grub2 as its MUCH more complicated to edit
> then grub....
eh, wish I would have know THAT before I started..

>
> Here is all you need to know about grub2
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

hmmm.. this is GOOD! but it makes me wonder how, with a new install, and a 
newly formatted "/" does it have 4 different linux boot options, when there 
is only xp & Koala available...

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Paul Cartwright
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