[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

Sat Feb 4 21:40:43 CET 2012

Michel Catudal a écrit :
+> Le 2012-02-04 04:32, andre999 a écrit :
+[...]
+> I have been using xosl for years and it works like a charm. On my 
+> computer I needed to install eComStation 2.1(OS/2) and it wants to be 
+> on drive A: just like windows. I disconnected the other drives and 
+> installed it. After the installation I put my other 2 2TB hards in and 
+> put the OS/2 disk as the 3rd disk.
+> With xosl it was a breeze, you just tell it to swap drives. On my 
+> son's computer I have Win XP as the second drive, using the same method.
+>
+> The beauty with this is that you never have to worry about windows or 
+> OS/2 screwing up your Linux systems during its installation. With the 
+> low cost of hard disks it no longer make sense to try to put windows 
+> and linux on the same drive
+
+Putting the different systems on the same disk shouldn't be a problem, 
+as long as selecting the system to boot is on its' own partition, like 
+xosl, and separate from the part which actually loads the particular 
+system.  The weakness of grub is that it tries to do both.
+With the xosl approach, if sector 0 is overwritten, it is super-simple 
+to recreate it without loosing anything.
+It would be nice to see grub split into separate system selection and 
+(Linux) system boot packages.  With a separate partition for the system 
+selection part, like xosl.
+If the Linux boot partition (containing /boot) is corrupted, the 
+computer becomes unbootable from the hard disk, if grub does the 
+selection of the system to boot.  And that can only be fixed by 
+repairing the Linux boot partition, which is a lot more problematic than 
+simply restoring sector 0 of the first disk.
+
+> ... You are still stuck with the old approach on a laptop though.
+> As far as I am concerned I will never use a laptop, the screen and 
+> keyboards are too damm small.
+
+A portable still has the advantage of being portable :)
+Although small type is almost required to make the screen usable.  
+Bigger portables have full-sized keyboards.
+[...]
+>
+> Lately I am using mostly gentoo, I may actually dump Mageia in the 
+> future if it is not possible to have gnome 2 or mate. Gnome 2 still 
+> works beautifully on gentoo.
+> I hate gnome 3 with a passion and I find kde too slow compared to gnome 2.
+
+I use gnome2 as well (in preference to kde for the same reasons), but I 
+modify it to have only 1 panel on top.  (To give me more screen space.)
+I put all the static icons under one drawer ("tiroir") icon, and group 
+all instances of the same application together.  Which works nicely.
+Under gnome3 there is at least one project (I forget the name) that 
+seems to provide the panels and menus removed by gnome3.  Hopefully that 
+will work.
+Otherwise I'll be looking for another desktop myself.
+>
+> Michel
+>
+-- 
+André
+
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