[ale] GRUB2 in May or June? (Was: Re: Failing GRUB)

[Michael Trausch]

I will cover this in the talk and have slides available. The talk will also
be recorded, if current practices remain stable. Will reply in more detail
later.
On Mar 18, 2012 2:04 PM, "Cornelis van Dijk" <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mike
>
> for your response. Unfortunately, I am physically unable to come to
> your presentation (if you give one) but I would appreciate some
> relevant pointers.
>
> I was sometimes confused by the choice of booting from the MBR or from
> a root partition, with conflicting information from the surrounding
> help files. Functionally, what difference does it make and is this
> still the case in GRUB2?
>
> Cor
>
> On 3/17/12, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 03/17/2012 12:51 PM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> >> On 03/17/2012 12:15 PM, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> >>> Is there a way to transition from GRUB to GRUB2 without wrecking
> >>> my boot process? (or worse). I have SuSE 12.1  as my main OS. It
> >>> does not have GRUB2.
> >>
> >> Yes, you can actually chain-load GRUB 2 from GRUB Legacy in order
> >> to test it.  Essentially what you do for that is install GRUB 2 on
> >> your partition, while GRUB Legacy lives on your MBR.  When you're
> >> happy and comfortable with GRUB 2 you can "promote" it to the MBR
> >> on your drive and it will only then replace GRUB Legacy.
> >>
> >> If it works for the group, I'd be willing to present on GRUB 2
> >> again at the meeting in either May or June, because I have to
> >> update the presentation a little bit to fit the relevant topics
> >> that have been asked recently on the ML.
> >>
> >> --- Mike
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > +1 I be very interested in that
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