On 06/10/2012 03:33 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> That has *got* to be the first time ever someone could validly call >> grub "simple" and "well-documented" >> >> Usually, grub is anything but :-) > > Well documentation is pretty good me thinks, or at least GRUB legacy was. I > haven't yet delved at any depth into GRUB2, which is of course more > complicated than its predecessor. > > PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more verbose > output on the console while *ubuntu is booting? I'm no expert on ubuntu, though I update my ubuntu virtualbox guest a few times every year (hoping against hope that my wife will abandon her infatuation with Bill Gates and join us). (Fat chance.) The simple grub2 shell commands have a good deal in common with legacy grub: When in doubt hit "c" or "e", then hit "tab" for a (long) list of grub2 commands.