Re: Grub2 information & Links.
Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:00 pm
Always nice to register for a forum and find the answer to the problem already there.
Thanks.
Weaver.
Thanks.
Weaver.
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Great!!breaker wrote:Official Manual out now!
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/
rtfm = read the fine manual...
grub2 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
Keep things simple!danny1987 wrote:Will this help me? I am a new Linux user and I set up Julia as a dual boot with windows 7 on the other side. Some how when i installed Linux I did not partition enough space and i was trying to install xp in a virtual box and ran out of space.
I never bother but it's a good policy to back up your data before installing a new operating system.danny1987 wrote: Linux after that didn't seem to be running very well, so i went into windows to look at the partition and just decided to format the partition that had Linux. After that i restarted and my boot menu was gone COMPLETELY no Linux or Windows. So I reinstalled Linux, but i don't know how to bring back my boot menu that still has windows installed on the computer where i have a bunch of files i would like to access. If anyone has any experience with this you help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Danny
Very true, however if you have set your Windows, Mint, and Ubuntu up the way you like it, its very important to 'READ' before installing Solaris. Solaris uses Grub 0.98 and didn't reconize my Mint 10 or Ubuntu 10.10Weaver wrote:Keep things simple!danny1987 wrote:Will this help me? I am a new Linux user and I set up Julia as a dual boot with windows 7 on the other side. Some how when i installed Linux I did not partition enough space and i was trying to install xp in a virtual box and ran out of space.
Any linux derivative will happily give you a dual boot environment.
Install samba to access your windows files from within the linux environment and you won't even need to boot windows.
But grub legacy will quite happily add windows to your boot menu.
Grub2 is for people that like to play with new things.
It's not necessary to transition yet.
I never bother but it's a good policy to back up your data before installing a new operating system.danny1987 wrote: Linux after that didn't seem to be running very well, so i went into windows to look at the partition and just decided to format the partition that had Linux. After that i restarted and my boot menu was gone COMPLETELY no Linux or Windows. So I reinstalled Linux, but i don't know how to bring back my boot menu that still has windows installed on the computer where i have a bunch of files i would like to access. If anyone has any experience with this you help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Danny
Take a while to read your documentation - even print it out - on the installation process you're using, because you can't access it during the install process otherwise.
If you haven't actually damaged your windows partition, the linux install process should still pick it up and be able to boot it for you.
If you find the situation is completely irretrievable - welcome to the wild side!
Weaver.
I'm all for progress, and I once looked forward to Gnome 3, but so far, it's not there for me. Forget Unity, I don't like it at all. To me, Linux is all about choices, and Unity took away most of them for me. It might be good for beginners, but everyone needs a path for progressing to a higher level.rijnsma wrote:The same story here.
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Just my sanity and a few hours of my time trying to get it to boot again.rijnsma wrote:Did it destroy something?
I've adopted the motto of an old-time usenet person from ba.internet whose signature said "Learn by destroying".
Re: Grub2 information & Links.
New postby linfidel ยป Sat Nov 12, 2011 4:35 am
rijnsma wrote:The same story here.
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I'm all for progress, and I once looked forward to Gnome 3, but so far, it's not there for me. Forget Unity, I don't like it at all. To me, Linux is all about choices, and Unity took away most of them for me. It might be good for beginners, but everyone needs a path for progressing to a higher level.
I've been reading the grub2 manual. It's interesting reading, but right now there is a problem with compatibility with grub 1.98 and the latest 1.99 used by Mint/Ubuntu. It bit my butt pretty badly.
rijnsma wrote:That's better than all data lost of something like it.
I now, I did fight a lot of battles with those machines and the software. I know...
linfidel wrote:I've adopted the motto of an old-time usenet person from ba.internet whose signature said "Learn by destroying".
Ooow, he's not right in my opinion or is he?
Smooth is better with a good backup of the system (LiveCD/DVD or Clonezilla etx.).
Better for the nerves and it does not divert people from Linux.
So you go experiment a lot and restore the system if needed. Maybe he's thinking of this.
That's why I like so much Mint (or PCLOS) and a simple Grub1 bootloader (especially with multiboot).
But when I have time I'll study Grub2.
In PCLOS 2010 (Grub1) + MBR for the system one can do redo MBR.grub legacy is simple to use, but a bit of terminal typing plus some understanding on chainloading.
once chainloading is used, it is quite simple.. [..]
Yes, I don't upgrade this old PCLOS the state it is in now. It is only a distro-switch (and can be used like a normal distro).but then still have to watch out dist-upgrade for those with grub2...always instruct it to root partition and not MBR.
O, I love this one.so that way I keep the sanity in check.