Grub not working
chris
chevhq at gmail.com
Thu May 5 23:43:15 UTC 2011
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 06:37 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 02:43 AM, chris wrote:
> > Not necessarily Goh. My experience only, but I have never known
> > os-prober to detect windows partitions earlier than xp. I have one
> > partition with 98 se 2 on it for running accountancy programs that I
> > don't wish to update. I have always had to add that to grub manually.
>
>
> Chris, you're up early,
> Or you haven't slept yet?
> I just woke up. Its 6.30 here.
> Had 3 hrs of sleep myself.
>
> I don't know about grub2 not detecting Wins earlier than xp, but I think
> it should.
>
> Regards - Goh Lip
>
>
>
I am generally up fairly early NZ time.
It is interesting, because I have never had grub detect a win partition
earlier than xp.
I have just landed an old p4 for playing with, and I will throw 98se
onto it and see if grub can detect it.
Also I noticed a line in his grub.cfg that went
cat<<EOF
? why?
cheers
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