Apparently, though unproven, at 01:36 on Sunday 09 January 2011, walt did opine thusly:
> 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. Might be worth learning how this new-fangled boot loader works. Right now I'm having Hercules' own fight trying to get Android Donut[1] and Froyo triple-booting on an Ubuntu 10.10 netbook. Ubuntu uses grub2 these days and I think I want to keep that (makes updates easier that way - the Android stuff is a manual update anyway). Let's keep the thread open and add stuff as we find it. [1] Yes, Android now runs on x86 :-) http://www.android-x86.org [2] I'llet "testosterone-pumped" passed (I'm the BOFH at work) but I dunno about "youngsters", this here fellow has grey in his beard. Actually he has a grey beard with a few bits of brown in it :-) > > 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 :) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
