Le 22/07/2017 à 14:52, Felix Miata a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-22 11:03 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata composed:
at least one primary is always EXT2 with
Grub Legacy and little else, unless the disk is a pure data-only disk, in which
case its MBR sector is empty but for the partit
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-22 11:03 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata composed:
>> To be clear, in MBR systems I only ever install DOS or OS/2 on a primary
>> partition. All other OS go on logicals. Except for one ancient PC that has
>> only
>> WinXP on it (which I did not install), at least on
Le 21/07/2017 à 08:34, Felix Miata a écrit :
To be clear, in MBR systems I only ever install DOS or OS/2 on a primary
partition. All other OS go on logicals. Except for one ancient PC that has only
WinXP on it (which I did not install), at least one primary is always EXT2 with
Grub Legacy and li
Le 21/07/2017 à 04:11, Felix Miata a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-20 23:40 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata composed:
Grub Legacy requires no scripts or filesystem mounting to
setup, and its menu.lst is magnitudes easier than Grub2's grub.cfg to manually
maintain.
This is your opini
On 07/20/2017 11:34 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-07-20 2:13 (UTC-0700):
Felix Miata wrote:
...I wanted Jessie on sda1 where I keep my
menu.lst and keep things simple.
"Simple" I find impossible in multiboot of any serious extent. Closest thing
there can be to simpl
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:11:10PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
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OTOH, every Debian kernel installation, plus initrd regenerations, fill my
screens with complaints like
dpkg: warning: version 'cur' has bad syntax: version number does not start with
digit
dpkg: warning: version 'prv' has bad s
On 2017-07-20, Weaver wrote:
> On 2017-07-21 07:29, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> Le 20/07/2017 à 08:51, Curt a écrit :
>>> On 2017-07-19, Curt wrote:
On 2017-07-19, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
>> Some of you may already know that setting up g
Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-07-20 2:13 (UTC-0700):
> Felix Miata wrote:
> ...I wanted Jessie on sda1 where I keep my
> menu.lst and keep things simple.
"Simple" I find impossible in multiboot of any serious extent. Closest thing
there can be to simple is a master bootloader on a primary part
On 07/20/2017 02:46 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
You don't have to use the auto-generated grub.cfg. You can write and
maintain your own one manually.
You can! Good for you!
Cheers,
--
Jimmy Johnson
Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda1
Registered Linux User #380263
On 07/19/2017 11:33 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-07-19 02:30 (UTC-0700):
Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
be imposable, I've been thinking about this for awhile now and how to
solve this problem that Ubuntu does not have.
So I ad
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-07-20 23:40 (UTC+0200):
> Felix Miata composed:
>> Grub Legacy requires no scripts or filesystem mounting to
>> setup, and its menu.lst is magnitudes easier than Grub2's grub.cfg to
>> manually
>> maintain.
> This is your opinion.
Grub2 setup can be run without
Le 19/07/2017 à 22:20, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
On 07/19/2017 11:04 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian
can be imposable,
Imposable ? What would impose it ?
Debian grub-legacy setup is no
Le 19/07/2017 à 20:33, Felix Miata a écrit :
Grub Legacy requires no scripts or filesystem mounting to
setup, and its menu.lst is magnitudes easier than Grub2's grub.cfg to manually
maintain.
This is your opinion. I beg to differ. Once you are used to it, manually
maintaining grub.cfg is rath
On 2017-07-21 07:29, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 20/07/2017 à 08:51, Curt a écrit :
>> On 2017-07-19, Curt wrote:
>>> On 2017-07-19, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
> Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
> be imp
Le 20/07/2017 à 08:51, Curt a écrit :
On 2017-07-19, Curt wrote:
On 2017-07-19, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
be imposable,
Imposable ? What would impose it ?
I think he meant
On 2017-07-19, Curt wrote:
> On 2017-07-19, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
>>> Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
>>> be imposable,
>>
>> Imposable ? What would impose it ?
> I think he meant impossible. In fact, I re
On 07/19/2017 11:04 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
be imposable,
Imposable ? What would impose it ?
Debian grub-legacy setup is no longer supported, yet it can still be
install
On 2017-07-19, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
>> Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
>> be imposable,
>
> Imposable ? What would impose it ?
I think he meant impossible. In fact, I read impossible (and only reread
the ph
Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-07-19 02:30 (UTC-0700):
> Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
> be imposable, I've been thinking about this for awhile now and how to
> solve this problem that Ubuntu does not have.
> So I added trusty main to my Jessie repos and
Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
be imposable,
Imposable ? What would impose it ?
(...)
Questions or suggestions?
One question : why use GRUB legacy ?
One suggestion : upgrade.
Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can
be imposable, I've been thinking about this for awhile now and how to
solve this problem that Ubuntu does not have.
So I added trusty main to my Jessie repos and installed trusty grub and
trusty grub-common, I had to do a f
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