Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > [...] > I'd show you how I chained openbsd, but the partition in question is > not mounted and I'm not logged in on an admin group user right now. This is for booting openbsd from the grub installed by debian Linux. I don't know how applicable i

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/20/14, Rusi Mody wrote: >> Any suggestions as to what to do. I've looked at several web pages about >> this and most seem out of date & I'm apprehensive about directly editing >> the grub.cfg file as it says to NOT do that. >> Thanks! >> John > > My impression (from the grub mailing lists) i

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, John Foster wrote: > Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running > several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got > windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the > grub2 osp

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Rather than probing, I prefer to have grub pass the boot off to the > installed distro's own boot loader by chaining. That way, each install > can update it's own loader and be done with it. Complete agreement. Of course, what really should happen is that Grub itself should do (at boot) the pro

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM, John Foster wrote: > Any one using multiboot please reply. Hi. > I have a system that is running several == 3 or more? > several linux distros, > each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 > pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. At least 5 phys

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 21/08/2014, John Foster wrote: > Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running > several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got > windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the > grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk as

Re: Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/08/14 12:58 PM, John Foster wrote: Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk a

Multiboot usage

2014-08-20 Thread John Foster
Any one using multiboot please reply. I have a system that is running several linux distros, each on its own hard drive. I have also got windows 7 pro and KfreeBSD on their own hard drives. I want to get the grub2 osprobe to recognize the KfreeBSD disk as its also set up with a grub boot loader