[Mageia-dev] Grub and Grub2

Mon Feb 6 19:57:56 CET 2012

Maurice Batey a écrit :
+> 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...
+>
+>    
+It was in Mandriva since version 9.1, and is also in mga1/core.
+It is in the rpm group system/kernel-and-material, like grub.
+I think it would be more appropriate if they (grub, extipl and similar 
+packages) were placed in system/configuration/boot-and-init.
+As well as not being lost among the huge number of kernel packages, 
+their entire purpose is booting the computer, including configuration.
+
+-- 
+André
+
+