Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/20/14, Rusi Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: Any suggestions as to what to do. I've looked at several web pages about this and most seem out of date I'm apprehensive about directly editing the grub.cfg file as it says to NOT do that. Thanks! John My impression (from the grub mailing

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I'd show you how I chained openbsd, but the partition in question is not mounted and I'm not logged in on an admin group user right now. This is for booting openbsd from the grub installed by debian Linux. I don't know

Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread John Foster
Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk as its also set up with a grub boot

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/08/14 12:58 PM, John Foster wrote: Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/08/2014, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the grub2 osprobe to recognize

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: Any one using multiboot please reply. Hi. I have a system that is running several == 3 or more? several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
Rather than probing, I prefer to have grub pass the boot off to the installed distro's own boot loader by chaining. That way, each install can update it's own loader and be done with it. Complete agreement. Of course, what really should happen is that Grub itself should do (at boot) the

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, John Foster wrote: Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the grub2