On 7/17/20 1:34 AM, Manish Jain wrote:
On 2020-07-17 13:57, Don Wilde wrote:
On 7/16/20 7:40 PM, Manish Jain wrote:
On 2020-07-17 01:49, Don Wilde wrote:
The [deleted] ones in Redmond have done it again. My multi-OS GRUB2
boot loader is gone, and in its place is a 500M partition called
'Windows boot loader'.
The purpose is to force us to look at MS' new version of Edge. All
my old boot files are gone.
It's taken me much of the morning to get underneath this, since on
this unit my only OS (other than Doze 10) with a WM and GUI is Ubuntu.
That's the last time I will allow this, and I'm calling those
[deleted]s tomorrow to give them a piece of my mind. After that I
will erase every vestige of that obscene OS from my disk.
If I understand correctly, it's just that your Grub boot-loader is
gone.
Yes, exactly.
That should not be much of a problem if your system is MBR+BIOS.
Unfortunately, it's GPT under EFI. I can access all my files through
the F12 key on this Dell tower, be it Windows, Linux or FreeBSD, but
if I allow it to boot with the Doze HDD in the system, it boots to
that one.
If your system is MBR+BIOS, the following should work.
Boot with your FreeBSD CD/DVD/memstick, and write out boot0 to all
your disks:
boot0cfg -B /dev/<disk0>
boot0cfg -B /dev/<disk1>
boot0cfg -B /dev/<disk2>
Next, boot with your Ubuntu CD/DVD/memstick, and write out Grub to
your Ubuntu / partition. If Ubuntu / is /dev/sdb2 :
sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt
sudo grub-install --force --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdb2
Reboot. When booting Ubuntu the first time, first press 'e' at the
Grub loader menu to edit the configuration, delete the complete
if..fi block, check that your line beginning with 'linux' is
accurate and then press F10. Once the system has booted, run 'sudo
update-grub'.
I appreciate the good data, Manish. I'm going to make sure I've
gotten all my files off the Doze partition and then wipe it
completely. FreeBSD is going to be my primary host OS and I'll keep
my other drive for whatever flavors of Linux I need to work with for
work. Based on what I've hseen on these threads, MS is still saddled
with a number of bad legacy architectural choices as well as poor
management choices, and both of those contribute to the challenges
the use of their OS brings.
I simply won't accept any contract that requires me to work with
Windows. I've survived well enough without that skill set and I see
no problem going forward.
Hi Done,
It is further my sincere suggestion to use MBR+BIOS. GPT+UEFI is
problem-prone, with one of the problems being that you won't be able
to boot FreeBSD.
I've already seen that one on my 'mule' machine. This tower (a 2007
machine) will boot FreeBSD directly even in UEFI-BIOS mode; I just need
to set it up so that FreeBSD also hosts the boot-loader for the other OSen.
To use one of my favorite phrases, "We'll get there!" :D
--
Don Wilde
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