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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 04:08, Chris Halse Rogers
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> What do you mean by "not booting the way it boots from menu.lst"? What
> exactly is different? In particular, does grub-pc *work* - as in: does
> it successfully load Ubuntu?
Hi Chris,
Thank you for getting back to me as quickly as you did. Now to
answer your questions.
grub-pc works and it successfully loads Ubuntu.
> Grub2 doesn't use menu.lst; it does have its own configuration.
Ok cool.
> As to your other questions:
> *) It sets root=(hd0,1) because grub2 starts partition numbering at 1, not 0
> *) The "search --fs-uuid --set" line is searching for your /boot partition by
> UUID, and setting it to the root if it finds it.
Ah so that why I have a separate /boot partition as well as a seperate
/ partition.
Now I get it.
> The only influence the bootloader has on the usplash theme is (a)
> whether it's on or not, and (b) the root partition that you're booting
> from. Since you've set menu.lst to not show the splash, it obviously
> won't be shown under grub legacy. You haven't disabled the splash under
> grub2, so the usplash will be shown.
Now
a. How do I disable the splash
b. Which is much more mysterious and worrying for me from where its
getting the splash screen
of Kubuntu rather than Ubuntu.
> Finally; I don't think the UUIDs of your drives are a particular
> concern, but the UUID of your root drive is still in the menu.lst you
> posted. And the UUID of your / partition is in grub.cfg.
True
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