Grub1 is like coming home

Goh Lip g.lip at gmx.com
Sun Apr 4 13:40:39 UTC 2010


On 04/04/2010 07:45 PM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 10:52 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
>> On 04/04/2010 08:54 AM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
>>
>>> http://lyonlabs.org/grub2.jpg
>>
>> What's the entry details of your
>> "main GRUB menu"  ?
>
> That machine has 16 operating systems on it, and for those that use
> GRUB, it is installed in the boot partition's boot sector (including
> Karmic).  So to each of those I added a menu entry to chain back to the
> "master" GRUB loader in the MBR in case I pick the wrong one.  For the
> Karmic in that photo, I just added these lines to 40_custom
> in /etc/grub.d:
>
> menuentry "main GRUB menu" {
>      set root=(hd0)
>      chainloader +1
> }
>
> The "master" GRUB (older version) is installed in its own small
> partition, although I've seen examples of doing that with GRUB2 as well
> and will eventually get around to doing it myself.
>
Okay, got it, thanks.
Good luck.

Regards - Goh Lip





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