[xubuntu-users] grub2 autoupdate problem

[Robert Freeman-Day]

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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Robert Freeman-Day wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:29:35 -0500 (EST)
> From: Robert Freeman-Day <presgas at gmail.com>
> To: michele <michele.bortolotto at newoffice.it>
> Cc: xubuntu-ml <xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] grub2 autoupdate problem
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> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, michele wrote:
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>> 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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> but the side you show me isn't what I had in mind.
>
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Michele,

Did you fix your issue with Solaris grub and Xubuntu?  A reply for better 
or for worse helps the whole community out.

- ---Robert Freeman-Day
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I would really like you to be on my side,
but the side you show me isn't what I had in mind.

- -Judybats
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