On Friday 19 Feb 2016 06:41:04 Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2016, g sent:
> > gone are the 'good old days' of boxes 4 and 5 5" drive bays where one
> > could install install 3" drives in removable drive carriers and swap
> > drives.
>
> Yet computer cases are still ridiculously
Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2016, g sent:
> gone are the 'good old days' of boxes 4 and 5 5" drive bays where one
> could install install 3" drives in removable drive carriers and swap
> drives.
Yet computer cases are still ridiculously huge...
Most PC cases that I see on sale tend to be
time to reminisce.
On 02/17/16 22:11, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> Once you sort this out, you want to plan how you do multiboots in the
>>> future. Way back when I tried it, and even two is a pain, one good
>>> solution was to make your own custom boot partition, and all it did was
>>> let you select
Tim:
>> Once you sort this out, you want to plan how you do multiboots in the
>> future. Way back when I tried it, and even two is a pain, one good
>> solution was to make your own custom boot partition, and all it did was
>> let you select which partition to boot, it chainloaded the next one.
Mi
On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 10:03:04 AM Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 02/16/2016 09:19 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
> > On 02/16/2016 08:15 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >> At the GRUB menu, type
> >>
> >> pager=1
> >> set
> >>
> >> Look for variable 'prefix=' this will be drive, partition, and path, to
> >
On 02/16/2016 09:19 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
On 02/16/2016 08:15 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
At the GRUB menu, type
pager=1
set
Look for variable 'prefix=' this will be drive, partition, and path, to
the GRUB directory where its cfg and modules are found.
All right Chris!
While at the boot prompt
On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 21:19 -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
> Is there a command that will take my simplified grub.cfg and install
> it without modifying it in any way and leave me with a bootable
> system? (please please please say yes).
I seem to recall that although GRUB no-longer uses a flat menu fi
On 02/16/2016 08:33 AM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2016, Mike Wright sent:
I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots...
Once you sort this out, you want to plan how you do multiboots in the
future. Way back when I tried it, and even two is a pain, on
On 02/16/2016 08:15 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
At the GRUB menu, type
pager=1
set
Look for variable 'prefix=' this will be drive, partition, and path, to
the GRUB directory where its cfg and modules are found.
All right Chris!
While at the boot prompt I have no access to anything and had forgot
On 02/16/16 08:29, Robert Nichols wrote:
<<>>
> In GRUB legacy, if you get the boot menu displayed, type "c" to get a
> "grub>" command prompt, then you can enter the command "root" and
> see which BIOS drive and partition is being used.
>
.
good to know. thanks for posting.
was aware of using
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2016, Mike Wright sent:
> I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots...
Once you sort this out, you want to plan how you do multiboots in the
future. Way back when I tried it, and even two is a pain, one good
solution was to make your own
At the GRUB menu, type
pager=1
set
Look for variable 'prefix=' this will be drive, partition, and path, to the
GRUB directory where its cfg and modules are found.
Chris Murphy
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On 02/15/2016 05:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I
need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no
idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config tools
were used so I don't dare j
On 02/15/16 17:42, Mike Wright wrote:
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Hi everybody,
>
> I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I
> need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no
> idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config tools
> were used so I
Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2016, Mike Wright sent:
> I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I
> need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no
> idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config
> tools were used so I don
On 02/15/2016 04:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 02/15/2016 03:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
Does the boot process leave any footprints behind telling where it
booted from?
So you can see my boot partition is a plain-old partition on /dev/sda1
and the root filesystem (block device 253:1) is a Linux
On 02/15/2016 04:21 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 02/15/2016 03:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
Does the boot process leave any footprints behind telling where it
booted from?
You can always "cat /proc/cmdline" to see what the boot command line
was. In my case:
[root@prophead ~]# cat /proc/cmdli
On 02/15/2016 04:10 PM, doug wrote:
On 02/15/2016 06:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
Does the boot process leave any footprints behind telling where it
booted from?
Don't know if you have legacy grub or not. With legacy grub, you can
change the names in menu.lst--put a 1 or 2 or whatever after
the d
On 02/15/2016 03:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I
need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no
idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config tools
were used so I don't dare j
On 02/15/2016 06:42 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I
need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no
idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config
tools were used so I don't da
Hi everybody,
I have several large disks filled with experiments and multiboots. I
need to make changes to the current /boot/grub/grub.cfg but I have no
idea which one I'm using or which one of the systems' grub config tools
were used so I don't dare just grab any old one and use it
I've se
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