GRUB vs. GAG

[Derek Broughton]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:

> You'll keep getting lots of people telling you how to avoid and fix this
> problem using GRUB. Those solutions work but they're hard to learn and

Not...

> in my opinion messy. Here's my view:
> 
> GRUB should not be used as a boot manager. It is more a kernel manager
> and should be allowed to manage the startup of only one installation. I
> always install GRUB to the same partitions as root (/).
> 
> GAG is a boot manager which sticks to it's job. It installs in MBR and
> you just point it to any bootable partition - then GRUB or whatever can
> take it from there.
> 
> Why do it this way?
> 
> If you (re)install anything which spoils you MBR you just reinstall GAG
> and point it to the bootable partitions your using.

Boot with Kubuntu live CD (probably just as easy with Ubuntu, but I haven't
done it).

Go to console:
# sudo mount /dev/whatever /mnt
# grub-install --root-directory=/mnt --no-floppy (hd0)

That wasn't so hard, was it?  That said, I _do_ understand what you're
saying about gag, and it bears looking into :-)
-- 
derek