On Saturday 08 January 2011 15:36:49 walt wrote: > About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list, > building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to > get it working for the *BSD family. > > Then I got old and tired and I settled on gentoo. I deleted all the > other OS's from my machines, including (especially) Windows -- so I no > longer need to multiboot five different OS's -- and so I lost interest > in the sexy new features of grub2. > > Lately, though, I've been using multiple USB sticks, and having them > plugged in at boot-time can confuse legacy grub into booting from the > wrong disk, i.e. not booting at all. Very annoying. > > So, I installed grub-1.98 and I've found that it *does* find partitions > by UUID, and even by LABEL, amongst multiple disks. Very nifty. > > Not so fast, though. I don't know how to write a grub.conf file that > can tell grub2 how to do that automatically so I don't need to type > commands at the interactive grub2 command prompt. > > That's where you testosterone-pumped youngsters (Dale? Volker? Alan? > Neil? Anyone?) can help fix this basically silly problem. > > grub2 is enough different from legacy grub to make the learning curve > very steep -- but I'm only about half-way up the curve and I'm fading > fast. (I usually unplug the offending USB stick and reboot :) > > If anyone here is interested enough to spend some real time and effort > on grub2, I can offer a few pointers, but I'm not willing to do the real > grunt work myself. > > Hm, sunset. Off to bed :)
a) never used grub2. Not interessted either. Seems to be infected by GNU. Which means 'it doesn't matter that it needs 250mb.. but it got this nifty feature' b) never had a problem with grub booting the wrong disk just because some usb sticks are inserted or esata drive turned on. And I have my bios read grub from a different disk (sdb/c/d) then root (sda) (/boot is on a md raid1 partition, / is on a ssd..) In conclusion: I am out of this. Sorry.
