Grub2 information & Links.
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:51 pm
As emorrp1 pointed out to me the other day, grub2 is coming. It will mean a number of changes in the way grub booting will be managed.
I'll be the first to tell you that I know next to nothing about grub2. I have been doing some reading about it but that is a long way from having a strong working knowledge of grub2.
The first thing that I noticed that seems to be missing is the ability to use unique identifiers in the "root" line. We seem to still be stuck with the "hd0,1" drive/partition identifier. In my opinion this was one of the biggest improvements needed in this day of mixed storage devices. I hope I am wrong on this issue, and just missed something.
At any rate, what I would like to suggest is a list of links to grub2 information/documentation that we all can use as a knowledge base for grub2. Good documentation on grub2 seems hard to find at the moment, so we would all benefit from assembling what we can in one list. emorrp1 gave me the first link below and I am adding another. If you find something you think is worth posting about grub2 please put it in this thread and I will put it in the list. That way it can all be kept together and easy to access.
Thanks,
Fred
Grub2 Links:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Grub2
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
http://grub.enbug.org/
http://grub.enbug.org/Manual
http://grub.enbug.org/CommandList
Using a splashscreen..
http://blogs.koolwal.net/2008/12/16/how ... sh-images/
Multiboot (dual-boot) - Windows XP
http://blogs.koolwal.net/2008/12/28/win ... r-grub-pc/
http://aronzak.wordpress.com/2008/09/30 ... rom-grub2/
http://linuxhub.net/2009/07/install-gru ... jackalope/
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Grub2Testing
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20.html ... Good links within too.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/GRUB-2-T ... 3671.shtml ... General description.
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... =3106368.0
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... =3081671.0
I'll be the first to tell you that I know next to nothing about grub2. I have been doing some reading about it but that is a long way from having a strong working knowledge of grub2.
The first thing that I noticed that seems to be missing is the ability to use unique identifiers in the "root" line. We seem to still be stuck with the "hd0,1" drive/partition identifier. In my opinion this was one of the biggest improvements needed in this day of mixed storage devices. I hope I am wrong on this issue, and just missed something.
At any rate, what I would like to suggest is a list of links to grub2 information/documentation that we all can use as a knowledge base for grub2. Good documentation on grub2 seems hard to find at the moment, so we would all benefit from assembling what we can in one list. emorrp1 gave me the first link below and I am adding another. If you find something you think is worth posting about grub2 please put it in this thread and I will put it in the list. That way it can all be kept together and easy to access.
Thanks,
Fred
Grub2 Links:
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Grub2
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
http://grub.enbug.org/
http://grub.enbug.org/Manual
http://grub.enbug.org/CommandList
Using a splashscreen..
http://blogs.koolwal.net/2008/12/16/how ... sh-images/
Multiboot (dual-boot) - Windows XP
http://blogs.koolwal.net/2008/12/28/win ... r-grub-pc/
http://aronzak.wordpress.com/2008/09/30 ... rom-grub2/
http://linuxhub.net/2009/07/install-gru ... jackalope/
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Grub2Testing
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20.html ... Good links within too.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/GRUB-2-T ... 3671.shtml ... General description.
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... =3106368.0
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... =3081671.0