Hi Richard,
On 15/04/18 23:34, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/15/2018 09:16 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
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>> On 15/04/18 20:58, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> a MBR BIOS is used.
>>> I wish to dedicate the first partition to Grub
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>> Assuming partition is sda1, from any working grub 2 bios-legacy OS
On 16/04/18 08:25, Goh Lip wrote:
The following should do.
insmod part_msdos
set root='hd0,msdos1'
search.fs_uuid root
set prefix=($root)/boot/grub
timeout=10
If you have specific requirements, add these (as an example)
set gfxmode=1024x768x32
set gfxpayload=1024x768x
On 16/04/18 05:34, Richard Owlett wrote:
I am now investigating what my grub.cfg should look like.
>I suspect that
> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> will do what I need.
You can do that. A much simpler one would suffice.
The following should do.
insmod part_msdos
set root='hd0,msdo
On 04/15/2018 09:16 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
On 15/04/18 20:58, Richard Owlett wrote:
a MBR BIOS is used.
I wish to dedicate the first partition to Grub
Assuming partition is sda1, from any working grub 2 bios-legacy OS in
your computer.
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
sudo grub-install --boot-direc
On 15/04/18 20:58, Richard Owlett wrote:
a MBR BIOS is used.
I wish to dedicate the first partition to Grub
Assuming partition is sda1, from any working grub 2 bios-legacy OS in
your computer.
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda
Then put in you
Underlying motivation:
I find how Debian uses Grub has _petty_ annoyances.
Historical background:
When asking questions in past the response was "OS specific".
Tentative project description:
"A *MINIMALIST* install of a pure GNU GRUB system"
Underlying assumption:
I have a lot of reading a
