I multiboot different configurations of the same OS (Debian Linux).
The default menu displays OS, release number, and partition as "/dev/sdaN/.
I would like to additionally display the partition label.
I want the label to be current as of last run of update-grub.
TIA
On 10/30/2021 11:21 AM, josep lladonosa capell wrote:
Hello, Bo,
From what I have read I suppose that you just want to boot an ISO image
from grub, right?
One solution for me (I don't work on an EFI system, though) without extra
partitioning and without the need of a bootable USB device and w
On 04/30/2019 01:34 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
I would like to do the following:
1. for each OS listed, replace "(on /dev/sdaN)" with
"(on PartitionsLabel)"
2. replace "GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" with "GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch)"
I would like to do the following:
1. for each OS listed, replace "(on /dev/sdaN)" with
"(on PartitionsLabel)"
2. replace "GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" with "GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch)"
[i.e. specify point release]
3. For the default OS, display the same information as all others
TIA
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On 10/20/2018 09:10 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 20/10/2018 à 15:10, Richard Owlett a écrit :
I experiment multiple configurations on my machine.
For my use case the Debian installer has two annoying "features".
(...)
1. If installer installs grub to boot partition it always give
On 10/20/2018 06:27 AM, j...@nhfn.net wrote:
[snip]
Power up machine
Grub screen for a few seconds
Two lines looking for SD 4:0:0:0 [sdb]
Seems normal except looking for 4:0:0:0 as SDB and not finding anything
so it gives up eventually?
Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device
On 04/16/2018 06:54 AM, Marc Haber wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 06:09:41AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
It's my understanding is that "update-grub" is Debian specific.
My reading of the Gnu documentation suggested that
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
would *similar
On 04/15/2018 10:58 PM, sashab wrote:
Hi Richard,
On 15/04/18 23:34, Richard Owlett wrote:
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
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
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
How do I coerce Grub2 to display partition LABEL in displayed menu,
instead of device id - i.e. sda1 ... sda10.
I have one machine dedicated to experimenting. It has multiple
(differently configured) installs of the same Linux release.
*WITHOUT* manually editing grub.cfg each time I add/remov
I multi-boot among multiple configurations of Debian.
Each partition has a meaningful label.
Instead of (or in addition to) the device id (e.g./sda3) can the menu
display the partition's label (e.g. "Full Stretch")?
TIA
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Help-grub mailing list
He
On 05/30/2017 09:26 AM, adrian15 adrian15 wrote:
2017-05-30 12:40 GMT+02:00 Richard Owlett :
On 05/29/2017 07:17 PM, John Little wrote:
Richard Owlett asked for a grub2 customized to his wishes.
How to obtain and install?
(This from memory before I got an UEFI computer. Please, anyone
On 05/30/2017 09:17 AM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
Richard Owlett writes:
What I want "to obtain and install" is an "unadulterated canonical
Grub2". Does what I want even exist in the "www.gnu.org/software/grub/"
universe of discourse? Or is Grub2 itself onl
On 05/29/2017 07:17 PM, John Little wrote:
Richard Owlett asked for a grub2 customized to his wishes.
How to obtain and install?
(This from memory before I got an UEFI computer. Please, anyone,
criticize the following.)
I approve of trimming, BUT ;/
You trimmed one {perhaps poorly worded
On 05/29/2017 07:42 AM, adrian15 adrian15 wrote:
I cannot help on how to obtain and install upstream GRUB2 to a dedicated
partition. Others might.
Not exactly what you want. Anyways if you want a dinamic menu take a look
at Super Grub2 Disk scripts. You will have to tailor them to do
specificall
On 05/28/2017 10:17 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
Richard Owlett writes:
When operating systems are added or deleted they *SHALL* appear in the
Grub menu in the *PHYSICAL* order that have on the disk.
If the partition containing an OS has an associated label, that label
*SHALL* be used in lieu of
Over the past few years I've found bits and pieces suggesting what I
want is physically possible. I do *NOT* trust my references to be
current, complete, or mutually consistent.
My OS of choice is Debian.
The hardware has a SINGLE physical hard disk which Debian consistently
refers to as /dev/
On 7/22/2016 11:42 AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
22.07.2016 18:21, Richard Owlett пишет:
I will be experimenting with multiple Linux installs on different
partitions of the same hard disk. [initially various tweaks to Debian
Jessie from the same physical set of distribution DVDs]
The boot menu
I will be experimenting with multiple Linux installs on different
partitions of the same hard disk. [initially various tweaks to
Debian Jessie from the same physical set of distribution DVDs]
The boot menu display *SHALL*:
1. display in partition number order.
2. display the correct partiti
Tim Shaw wrote:
Perhaps someone will find the attached scripts to reverse the
boot list order useful.
*THANK YOU*
Your timing could not have been better.
If they work on my system, I will not go balder each time I do an
additional install [currently have 6 OS on my test machined - I
don't use
Carl Turney wrote:
Hello All,
4 days (below) and no one has posted any reply.
Have I done or said anything wrong?
You may have been too optimistic. This group is relatively quiet,
~3 posts/day.
Was my question incorrectly formatted?
Have I posted my question to the wrong email list?
Thank
Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
...
Let's not mess things up. update-grub is program provided by your
distribution. Any comments about this command should be addressed to
your distribution, not to upstream list.
...
How does upstream do things? documented?
...
No, /etc/grub.d/10_linux as shipped by u
Simon Hobson wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
There are three implied restrictions:
1. the first OS listed on menu shall be the OS on /dev/sda1
Can't help with the rest, but you can set the default entry by copying the
exact text of the menu entry (in your case, 'Label_sda1
Jordan Uggla wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
During Debian installs I use manual partitioning.
I give the partition being created a meaningful label.
I would like that label to appear in Grub's menu.
How?
E.G.
I currently have 4 flavors of Debian Wheezy inst
Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
В Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:42:13 -0500
Richard Owlett пишет:
During Debian installs I use manual partitioning.
I give the partition being created a meaningful label.
I would like that label to appear in Grub's menu.
How?
E.G.
I currently have 4 flavors of Debian W
During Debian installs I use manual partitioning.
I give the partition being created a meaningful label.
I would like that label to appear in Grub's menu.
How?
E.G.
I currently have 4 flavors of Debian Wheezy installed (different
desktops).
Currently the menu shows long effectively meaningless s
Richard Owlett wrote:
I wish to install GRUB2 in a way that is actively discouraged.
I wish to install it in a dedicated partition.
The pages on "HOWTO" reference warning message that will result
and a TOO BRIEF description of why the message - a possible
problem with blocklists.
C
I wish to install GRUB2 in a way that is actively discouraged.
I wish to install it in a dedicated partition.
The pages on "HOWTO" reference warning message that will result
and a TOO BRIEF description of why the message - a possible
problem with blocklists.
Can someone point me to a detailed
Chuck Lidderdale wrote:
Karl Berry said to write you.
I want to boot FC-19 on a headless machine - Google has been no
help at all. Fedora Forum - 96 looks, 0 replies.
Anyhow, what do I have to change?
Thanks
Chuck
How about a hint of form of this "headless machine"?
What is your objective
I have to maintain 2 distinct sets of machines:
1. Donated Windows machines at church using donated
applications which
I'll set up to dual boot Debian so we can migrate to a
single OS.
2. My personal machines
a. one must retain WindowsXP on sda1 with whatever version
of Debian
Richard Owlett wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
I have a machine set aside for experimenting with OS
installs/configuration.
I'm currently experimenting with Debian Squeeze and Wheezy.
Debian's installer defaults to
1. making the last install the default when booting - can be
b
Richard Owlett wrote:
I have a machine set aside for experimenting with OS
installs/configuration.
I'm currently experimenting with Debian Squeeze and Wheezy.
Debian's installer defaults to
1. making the last install the default when booting - can be
bad idea if
you m
I have a machine set aside for experimenting with OS
installs/configuration.
I'm currently experimenting with Debian Squeeze and Wheezy.
Debian's installer defaults to
1. making the last install the default when booting - can be
bad idea if
you mess up the installation. I want the first
I'm currently physically constrained to using GRUB 1.98, but
I suspect that my problem will still exist when I move to a
more current release of my preferred OS.
I wish *ALWAYS* default to the OLDEST installed system as
that is obviously known to work. [Think about it. If it did
not work it w
Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
В Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:47:37 -0600
Richard Owlett пишет:
I'm making a series of almost identical installs of Debian
Squeeze (6.0.5)
[Grub menu identifies itself as version 1.98+20100804+squeeze1]
Using the Debian installer and Grub with their defaults
leaves me me
Chris Murphy wrote:
On Feb 2, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[Grub menu identifies itself as version 1.98+20100804+squeeze1]
I think you need to use a newer version of GRUB2 first off. This is a
prerelease version and is quite old.
Using a newer version would be nice BUT
I'm making a series of almost identical installs of Debian
Squeeze (6.0.5)
[Grub menu identifies itself as version 1.98+20100804+squeeze1]
Using the Debian installer and Grub with their defaults
leaves me me with problems with the Grub menu for boot options.
The latest installation goes to th
Richard Owlett wrote:
What would fit best with my habits is that the precedence of
OS to boot would be
"first installed -> first boot choice" *NOT* "last installed
-> first boot choice".
From the responses so far, guess that's not going to happen.
A usef
The GRUB team made many reasonable design decisions.
Though they match vast MAJORITY of users, their choices
annoy me every time I boot ;<
What would fit best with my habits is that the precedence of
OS to boot would be
"first installed -> first boot choice" *NOT* "last installed
-> first boo
Jordan Uggla wrote:
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm new to Linux though have been end-user since CPM-80 days [took a much
too long detour thru Windows].
I've dedicated one machine to experimenting with multiple versions (mostly
Debian related) installed
I'm new to Linux though have been end-user since CPM-80 days
[took a much too long detour thru Windows].
I've dedicated one machine to experimenting with multiple
versions (mostly Debian related) installed from that
distro's LiveCD.
The combination of the installer and grub2 gives two
annoy
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I find this guide really helpful even when i am not using *buntu.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
I think this sub-page might help you with the 1st part of your question.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup#File_Structure
Regards from
Tom :)
Thank y
I am doing a series of experimental *nix installs.
At the moment most are not only the same lineage (Debian
Linux) but the same generation (6.0.3). What is important
*TO ME* what options I chose during install &/or adjustments
I made after installation.
Questions:
1. Where does Grub2 get the
I took the prompts issued by the installer included on
"live" edition of Ubuntu 10.10 *TOO* literally. I was
working on a Windows machine on which I had no intention
whatsoever to have any Linux distro whatsoever.
I thought I was installing everything to a USB stick. It
accepted me designatin
Jordan Uggla wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've received "on list" and "off list" replies which demonstrate that where
I did not confuse the reader I inspired them to answer questions I wasn't
asking. So I'll do a complete r
I've received "on list" and "off list" replies which
demonstrate that where I did not confuse the reader I
inspired them to answer questions I wasn't asking. So I'll
do a complete rewrite using high school journalism questions
of 50+ years ago.
Who - a Linux newbie
What - two computers - Win
N.B. - The misinstallation was result of multiple human
error, not GRUB itself ;/
What I attempted/desired was create a "full" install of
Ubuntu 10.10 on a USB stick so I could run either my desktop
machine or my laptop from identical configuration -
especially including all emails.
What I
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