[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

Mon Feb 6 18:34:14 CET 2012

On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:50:27 -0500, Michel Catudal wrote:
+
+> On my son's computer I installed it on the MBR. 
+
+  I couldn't figure out how to do that. It seemed to me that it had to
+have a FAT32 partition, and that one would need to be running Windows
+to run the .exe file...
+
+> You could create a USB freedos installation.
+
+  I want the boot manage in  the MBR, not on a USB device.
+
+> The
+> beauty with xosl , it is small and works nicely. Being able to put it on a
+> separate partition is a huge advantage over any other bootloader.
+
+  But I already use GRUB (as put on the root partition of each nstall)
+as boot loader. I have several versions of Linux in various partitions.
+   What I'm looking for is a boot *manager* in the MBR which will show
+me all the installs and allow me to select one of them to boot.
+
+I've tried GAG (the best, but it has some technical hangup that
+prevents it from writing its format updates back into the MBR of
+/dev/sda, so I've been using it on floppy).
+
+I couldn't get SBM to work on a floppy (for initial testing) so am
+currently using Extipl (which Mandriva 2010.2 has in its software
+library and is very easy to install on floppy or MBR, but has a
+low-level presentation of the bootable installations).
+
+Many thanks for your efforts to help with XOSL, but I still simply
+cannot get a clear enough understanding of how the thing is set up, so I
+will pass on this one.  :-(
+
+Merci mille fois...
+
+-- 
+/\/\aurice 
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