Comments on: Mastering Grub 2 The Easy Way

By: Hd

Hd — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:50:00 +0000

Sorry man, this is Linux… Get used to the command line…

By: Perpsective

Perpsective — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:07:08 +0000

I don't worry about Grub2.

I have a small 100 Mb /boot partition on the hard drive in which I have Grub Legacy installed. The Master Boot Record (MBR) points to this and this never changes. I use this version of Grub Legacy to chainload whichever bootloader exists in the partition of the OS being loaded.

So, on my hard drive I have Windows 7 on one partition, with the Windows bootloader installed within that partition. I have Kubuntu in another partition, with the Grub2 bootloader installed in that partition (but not to the MBR). I also have ubuntu in another partition, and it also has Grub2 installed only within that partition (not in the MBR). Finally, I have Mac OSX, with its own bootloader.

When the system boots, the MBR is set to point to Grub Legacy in the small boot partition. This gives me the menu with the list of Operating Systems on my hard drive.

When I select one of the choices on the menu, Grub Legacy then merely chainloads whichever bootloader is associated with the OS I have chosen, each stored in the same partition as the OS.

With this setup, I never have to change the MBR, don't have to fiddle much with the boot partition version of Grub Legacy (except to change the menu), and don't have to worry about each individual bootloader (since they are free to update themselves within their own partition without affecting any other partition).

The chainloading process takes only 1 extra second, so doesn't slow down things at all.

There is no better way to go, if you are using multiple OSs.

My method is at http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Multiple_OS_Installation or
http://kubuntuguide.org/Multiple_OS_Installation

By: rygle

rygle — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:13:15 +0000

That's the easy way?!? Someone seriously needs to come up with a GUI frontend…

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By: dearvivekkumar

dearvivekkumar — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:22:41 +0000

I have downloaded the splash images and made the changes in /etc/grub.d/*02_debian_theme file as
for i in {/boot/grub,/usr/share/images/grub/Windbuchencom.tga}/moreblue-orbit-grub.{png,tga} ; do

while i am running command for updating the grub getting error as which is highlighted below. why is it so??????

vivek@vivek-friend:~$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
/sbin/lvs: 1: Syntax error: newline unexpected
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1

thanks

By: J Tweed

J Tweed — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:11:21 +0000

I wish it were so easy.
I've wasted 4 weeks of productive 'tinkering' whilst going round in circles trying to get grub2 to boot Mint8 AND Fedora FC12 (still grub1) off the same menu. Too scared to setup anything permanently incase I trash everything with a badly formed grub install.
I can F8 select the boot drive and individually get either to boot, but.. (and chainload should be the answer) anything I try gets me nowhere but Error 15 , 13, 8, 'unrecognised format' etc. The disk numbers from the chroot are different from the debug console (that's when I get that far). Part of my problem is that I'm finding dozens of posts not quite dealing with my problem (SATA + PATA boot drives too) and NO clear information about fixing 'my' problem.
Some things just seem broken from the outset.
os-prober does not report any OS even though I have 2, (so what's it doing ?)
It seems impossible to test out grub2 from the command line like I could with grub.
Confusing terminology muddles the correct place to use '(hdx)' or '/dev/sdx' to a layman.

I just want to boot my computer.
Enjoying debugging Grub2 was not the purpose I bought the computer for.

By: Al Nonymous

Al Nonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:42:27 +0000

Anyone here remember “New Coke”?

Grub2 and KDE4 are Linux’s “New Coke”.

By: Al Nonymous

Al Nonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:42:00 +0000

Anyone here remember “New Coke”?

Grub2 and KDE4 are Linux’s “New Coke”.

By: Al Nonymous

Al Nonymous — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:42:00 +0000

Anyone here remember “New Coke”?

Grub2 and KDE4 are Linux’s “New Coke”.

By: Chuong

Chuong — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:01:30 +0000

If you want to change the order of boot entry, just change the number in front of the files in grub.d/
I wanted win7 first so I change 30_os-prober to 07_win7 for example

By: Chuong

Chuong — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:01:00 +0000

If you want to change the order of boot entry, just change the number in front of the files in grub.d/
I wanted win7 first so I change 30_os-prober to 07_win7 for example

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By: Lio

Lio — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:31:11 +0000

Ubuntu is starting to remind me of windows where it “improves” things just to make it more difficult for the user. Grub 2 is a case in point.

By: Lio

Lio — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:31:00 +0000

Ubuntu is starting to remind me of windows where it “improves” things just to make it more difficult for the user. Grub 2 is a case in point.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:55:19 +0000

In grub legacy I could easily edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.

I have two PC’s with XP and several Linux OS’s including Puppy where I must manually enter the entry.

On Grub 2 ( installed from Ubuntu 9.10 or Mint 8 [Ubuntu-based] ) I need to edit, delete and add certain OS entries to what was easily placed or removed from ~/menu.lst.

What should I do?

—
Bob

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:55:00 +0000

In grub legacy I could easily edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.

I have two PC’s with XP and several Linux OS’s including Puppy where I must manually enter the entry.

On Grub 2 ( installed from Ubuntu 9.10 or Mint 8 [Ubuntu-based] ) I need to edit, delete and add certain OS entries to what was easily placed or removed from ~/menu.lst.

What should I do?

—
Bob

By: dale m

dale m — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:23:18 +0000

i did this how to but i am haveing problems hiding the othere intres in my menu i need help thanx .

By: dale m

dale m — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:23:00 +0000

i did this how to but i am haveing problems hiding the othere intres in my menu i need help thanx .