Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 iun 11, 19:28:28, Simon Pepping wrote: > > The latter leads to a quirky boot process in Ubuntu. Exact error messages please :) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.as

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-13 Thread Simon Pepping
Tom H gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Simon Pepping > leverkruid.eu> wrote: > > > > I have a debian and a ubuntu system in two different partitions on > > the same > > disk. grub-pc on the debian system provides the boot-loader. > > > > When I have grub-pc installed on the u

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I know that I stand alone with this opinion, but I edit grub.cfg > manually, instead of wasting hours, days, month with learning how to set > up several files, that then anyway won't set up grub.cfg 100% the way I > wish to have it. > [snip]

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I know that I stand alone with this opinion, but I edit grub.cfg > manually, instead of wasting hours, days, month with learning how to set > up several files, that then anyway won't set up grub.cfg 100% the way I > wish to have it. > [snip]

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Brian
On Mon 06 Jun 2011 at 11:10:59 +, Simon Pepping wrote: > When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package > overwrite debian's grub on the MBR. You could install Ubuntu's GRUB on the root partition. Or try to; it seems it may be fraught. > When I uninstall grub-pc

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Simon Pepping wrote: > > I have a debian and a ubuntu system in two different partitions on the same > disk. grub-pc on the debian system provides the boot-loader. > > When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package > overwrite debian's g

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Btw. the command 'submenu' works with Ubuntu, but not > Debian, for GRUB2 there seems to be several setups, or plugins or ...?! Wheezy and Natty have "submenu". Squeeze, Maverick, and Lucid don't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 11:10 +, Simon Pepping wrote: > I have a debian and a ubuntu system in two different partitions on the same > disk. grub-pc on the debian system provides the boot-loader. > > When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package > overwrite debian's

linux-boot-prober and grub on other OS

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Pepping
I have a debian and a ubuntu system in two different partitions on the same disk. grub-pc on the debian system provides the boot-loader. When I have grub-pc installed on the ubuntu system, updates of that package overwrite debian's grub on the MBR. When I uninstall grub-pc from ubuntu, update-gru