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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2025 12:50 am    Post subject: GRUB Page Reply with quote
Everything you ever wanted to know about GRUB?

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2025 6:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Darn! I could've used this a week or so ago.

Thanks! Smile



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2025 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice find. Thanks. Smile



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2025 8:54 pm    Post subject: LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple Reply with quote
While this page is nowhere near as comprehensive and complete as the original article in this topic, this page offers a simple approach - especially to GRUB, and it explains each step along the way. May be a useful complement to the other article:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2008/01/22/lilo-and-grub-boot-loaders-made-simple.html



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2025 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Roderick W. Smith, whom I have found to be a pretty good writer, has written an article for IBM Developer Works on migrating from GRUB legacy to GRUB 2. Bruce Byfield also has a series, where he is covering GRUB legacy, then GRUB 2. Roderick's article is at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-grub2/

Linux Planet has also had a series of articles on GRUB and GRUB 2; found them at http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7004/1/.

I have not yet run across the URL to Bruce's series. If I find it I will pass it along as well.



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2025 11:52 pm    Post subject: Re: GRUB Page Reply with quote
Xeroid wrote:
Everything you ever wanted to know about GRUB?

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm


link be broken.

Anyone got a cached copy or something?



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2025 2:15 am    Post subject: Re: GRUB Page Reply with quote
Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn wrote:
Xeroid wrote:
Everything you ever wanted to know about GRUB?

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm


link be broken.

Anyone got a cached copy or something?


No, but the links I provided earlier today tell you about GRUB 2, and here is the project page: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html - the official GRUB 2.

Also, here is a page for Ubuntu with more information:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 and http://grub.enbug.org/ is the GRUB Wiki. Finally, http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 is the Gentoo Linux GRUB 2 Wiki, which is quite good, and http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ is the GRUB legacy manual documentation.

Does that help?



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2025 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Seems his ISP terminated his site. . .

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I just opened my email this morning and in came the usual monthy blurb from my ISP, including this news about about BigPond removing Personal Homepage, Personal Website and Webstart services from the market on 30th September 2025.

More information. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.html?t=1176678


Here's a link to his new site . . . http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/

legacy grub page . . . http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15.html

grub 2 page . . . http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20.html

This is such an old thread I don't remember much about the original content on his first grub page. Embarassed



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2025 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Xeroid wrote:
Seems his ISP terminated his site. . .


Here's a link to his new site . . . http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/

legacy grub page . . . http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15.html

grub 2 page . . . http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20.html

This is such an old thread I don't remember much about the original content on his first grub page. Embarassed


This is really good stuff. There is a great deal of material that is specifically pertinent to Ubuntu, but plenty of tips and techniques that are transferable to other systems as well, so thanks for sharing it with everyone!



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2025 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I love grub .... never got along with LILO, it just seemed more difficult when grub was so easy Wink



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2025 3:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
JP wrote:
I love grub .... never got along with LILO, it just seemed more difficult when grub was so easy Wink


You may not feel the same way about GRUB 2. It takes some getting used to!



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2025 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
masinick wrote:
JP wrote:
I love grub .... never got along with LILO, it just seemed more difficult when grub was so easy Wink


You may not feel the same way about GRUB 2. It takes some getting used to!

That sounds ominous Sad I guess I's better look at your link and see what's up ...... BTW, why change a good thing? What didn't they like about the original?



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2025 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
@masinick: I see you picked up the torch Smile things are working a bit better for me now with GRUB2 (despite the dalliance with burg & plymouth), but still don't have FreeBSD fixed.

I'm thinking of documenting a GRUB Legacy > GRUB2 guide of my own based on a multi drive multi-OS (more than one linux, one Windows, and one *BSD) set-up but it'll have to wait for the weekend, so that I can (a) get it working for me (!) (b) replicate it (c) document it and then post it

@JP: I'm thinking you may not be liking GRUB2 as much as what you've been using Sad I too loved the simplicity of G Legacy; I know why they updated, but I'm not appreciating the model they've gone for - the best to hope for is that G2 is still beta and when it goes 2.0 it'll be a much simpler tool



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2025 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, from what I've read so far, Grub (legacy) is no longer

A few more links for info about Grub and Grub2:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.html
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/grub/html_chapter/grub_4.html
http://grub.enbug.org/GrubLegacy
http://grub.enbug.org/



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