On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 13:52:06 -0400, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> David Baron composed on 2015-10-25 14:53 (UTC+0200): > > > I started with wheezy 64 bit install and grub2. Did not have any clue how > > it worked but it did. When upgraded to Sid, added a kernel and wanted to > > keep the older on around just-in-case, I had no idea how to do this with > > Grub2 so I went back to Lilo. Lilo also makes it easy of have a systemd and > > older-style init choice, the latter saved me recently. > > > Running afoul of having two 1 terra disks around could have been the > > problem. I have no understanding of this business. I had no problem reading > > and writing the partition I wanted to make root. Just could not do anything > > in it, either chroot or on boot into the system which malfunctioned. > > > How do I make custom boot menus, kernel, init choices and such using the > > Grub? > > There are numerous www howtos for customizing Grub2. > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1296225 amounts to one such. > > Customizing Grub Legacy is much simpler. > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-natively > explains setting it up simply. > > http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/Linux/menu.lst can serve as a menu.lst template > based on how things work here. Note in its lower section there are special > stanzas used only for network installations. I don't download many iso files. > It's wasteful of bandwidth to download so much that will only be used at most > once. There are no hard dependencies on configs elsewhere located when using > Grub Legacy, but do note that Debian's Grub Legacy still cannot read EXT4 > filesystems at least as of Jessie, so its use should be limited accordingly > either to systems on which EXT4 isn't present, or to needing access only to > EXT3 or EXT2 or older supported filesystems. Grub Legacy in Mageia, Fedora > and openSUSE have no such limitation. I use openSUSE's, as it has a nice > gfxboot configuration that's simple enough to use and customize, and > extremely friendly at boot time. > > Should you wish to try Grub Legacy, I'll be more than happy to assist. I used GRUB Legacy (one of the 0.99~ releases) under Debian 7, and it worked fine reading from ext4.
