[xubuntu-users] grub2 autoupdate problem

[Robert Freeman-Day]

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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, michele wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:44:57 +0100
> From: michele <michele.bortolotto at newoffice.it>
> To: xubuntu-ml <xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [xubuntu-users] grub2 autoupdate problem
> 
> hi i'm michele from italy,i've a question: i need to lockdown the
> autoupdate of grub2 in ubuntu 9.10 ,i need that ubuntu write grub only
> in the partition and not in the mbr.
> This is my disks layout:
> ide0 opensolaris with his grub on the ide mbr (and i start ubuntu with
> chainloader +1)
> sata0 xubuntu
>
> every time i ugrade ubuntu,it writes its grub2 on mbr of ide0 and i
> can't boot opensolaris
>
> any hints?

Michele,

The Solaris grub implementation should be pretty much the same as grub v1, 
just modified to read zfs.  I would look over the following sun articles. 
The first one does have an example of multibooting linux and utilizing 
solaris' menu.lst and not chainloading while the second link talks about 
actually locating the solaris menu.lst:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/grub_boot_solaris.jsp

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5505/6mkv5m1k1?a=view

Another good resource for manually editing the grub config file is here:

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Grub#Manual_configuration

As far as xubu, I would probably go into the package manager and remove 
any grub/bootloader software.

Keep us posted on your progress!

- ---Robert Freeman-Day
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