Multibooting with Grub2

[Tom H]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Because I had trouble with Ubuntu's grub since 10.04--it didn't see all
>>> installed Linuxes,
>>> it had a miserably small non-gui font, and it gave you about 2 seconds
>>> to choose
>>> among the os's that it did show, I wound up using the grub from one of
>>> the other
>>> Linux os's on the machine--PCLINUXOS.  It solves all the problems, and
>>> with its
>>> available configuration without going into the CLI, you can delete the
>>> "extra" Ubuntu
>>> listings.  (With one version of Ubuntu, I had about 8 listings on the
>>> boot screen.)
>>> The only problem is, Ubuntu doesn't like it.  If you go to upgrade
>>> Ubuntu, it gags
>>> on PCLos grub.  The heck with that.  I have Ubuntu because of a class I
>>> am taking,
>>> and if it gives me trouble, at the end of the class, Ubuntu may end
>>> also--we'll see.
>>> The PCLos grub can be installed from the live PCLos disk, I don't know
>>> that you need
>>> the rest of the os, altho you might find you like it.  I do.
>>>
>>>  From the PCLos menus: More applications>Configuration>Redo MBR
>>
>> Many thanks for trolling...
>
> Oh, come on, that wasn't. He is free to express his opinion if he
> wants; he seemed to me to be trying to be helpful. OK, so, he's wrong
> ;¬) - I've tried PCLinuxOS & I didn't like it. But if he prefers it,
> well, /chacun á son goût/.

Yes, but I'm not on a PC Linux list moaning in just about every post
that Ubuntu does things better! Anyway, he's now in my
straight-to-trash list.