On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >>>> The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all >>>> the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost >>>> tolerable. >>> >>> < cough cough> Care to share how you did that little trick? I like >>> to see the stuff scrolling up myself. >> >> Hold Shift during boot to bring up the GRUB menu, press E to edit, remove >> the splash and quiet options and press Ctrl-X to boot. It's almost the >> same as legacy GRUB, with just enough changes to confuse people :( >> >> Tp make it permanent, edit /etc/default/grub, remove the splash and quiet >> options, save the file and run grub2-mkconfig (or the wrapper script that >> Ubuntu provide, update-grub?). >> >>> Is there a way after the install to add a Windoze OS to grub and all? >>> I unplugged the windoze drive to make sure it didn't mess that up OR I >>> mess up something. So, grub, or some bootloader, is installed on the >>> wrong drive in this case. >> >> Plug the drive back in and run grub2-mkconfig. It will generate a new >> menu with a Windows option. No manual editing needed. >> >> > > Oh nooooooooo. It can't be that easy. O_O I'm going to screw something up > you watch. lol > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Oh, how do I boot it the first time tho? When I plug the windoze drive up, > there won't be a grub. Yet anyway. Hmmmmm. > > Boot off the Ubuntu disc and chroot to the new install to run the commands.
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