Re: multidistro grub2 idea

2007-08-10 Thread Mani A
On 8/12/07, adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mani A escribió: > > > > It will be a good thing if, if grub2 is installed to the mbr of the > > active partition and if a new OS is going to be installed, then we > > must be able to tell grub2 about it and accordingly it must be able to > > upda

Re: multidistro grub2 idea

2007-08-10 Thread adrian15
Mani A escribió: #1) All Linux installers should set or reuse a ext2 partition next to the windows one as a /boot one where grub2 is installed. .. . if the dreaded OS exists. But a single /boot partition is not preferable over 'but from anywhere' principle. Well.. this is the old discussion: Ce

Re: multidistro grub2 idea

2007-08-06 Thread Mani A
On 7/23/07, adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > THE PROBLEM > = > > The problem about boot loaders in a multi distribution environment is > the grub configurations being overlapped. > I think the problem is here is that no one knows that a command called > configfile

Re: multidistro grub2 idea

2007-08-03 Thread adrian15
BVK escribió: On 7/23/07, adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that if grub2 is going to have scripting and so many new features we should take advantage of them and change the way computers do boot. #1) All Linux installers should set or reuse a ext2 partition next to the windows one a

Re: multidistro grub2 idea

2007-07-22 Thread BVK
On 7/23/07, adrian15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that if grub2 is going to have scripting and so many new features we should take advantage of them and change the way computers do boot. #1) All Linux installers should set or reuse a ext2 partition next to the windows one as a /boot one w

multidistro grub2 idea

2007-07-22 Thread adrian15
THE PROBLEM = The problem about boot loaders in a multi distribution environment is the grub configurations being overlapped. Imagined this partition layout: part 1: windows part 2: ubuntu part 3: debian If you install first windows, th