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Correction on Ubuntu Karmic GRUB Installation
Blog To Moley, XWJ and others who might have been following the recent discussion of GRUB installation for Karmic, I have learned through a comment on my other blog that there is in fact a way to control whether and where GRUB will be installed during...
[September 14, 2009, 10:03]
Why only mention lilo, not grub?
Talkback My impression is that many linux distributions now default to using grub. Here is one of many online tutorials about fixing grub after something has gone wrong -- e.g.installing Windows clobbers linux booting: http://www.sorgonet.com/linux...
[August 2, 2007, 18:25]
Default Boot Specification with GRUB 2 (Ubuntu 9.10)
Blog The problem I was looking at was setting the default boot selection on Ubuntu 9.10, or more generally with GRUB 2. The difficulty is that GRUB 2 regenerates its grub.cfg file, and during that generation it looks for additional Linux kernels in...
[November 19, 2009, 8:31]
Configuring GRUB for Graphic Booting
Blog As I have mentioned previously, there are two popular versions of GRUB in use today, the "standard" or original version, which does only text display while booting (with background colors), and the "gfxboot" version, which can display and update...
[January 14, 2009, 8:09]
Multi-boot Configuration with GRUB
Blog I've gotten several comments and questions pertaining to my GRUB posting last week. The alternative is to use the configfile specification for the other partition, in which case GRUB will read that file and act accordingly, usually presenting a new...
[January 12, 2009, 9:03]
A Few Notes about the GRUB Bootloader
Blog Because of my multi-boot setup, and the fact that I am more or less continually reloading one distribution or another, I've had to look a bit deeper into setting up and configuring GRUB recently. Of the distributions I have installed, the graphic...
[January 9, 2009, 16:32]
A Few Notes about the GRUB Bootloader
Blog Comment When I turned on the S2110, it failed to boot, GRUB just came up in command-line mode (grub>). Most likely because the last thing I did on Friday was fooling around trying to install Vector Linux, which wants to install LILO rather than GRUB, and...
[January 13, 2009, 13:53]
A Few Notes about the GRUB Bootloader
Blog Comment I have a dual-boot Linux system that has "hidden" one of the Linux boot partitions. This info will help me fix the "feature" I've run into. Thanks.
[January 10, 2009, 13:18]
Correction on Ubuntu Karmic GRUB Installation
Blog Comment Kool! Now I won't be so scared to try it out. I'm running out of open partitions!
[September 14, 2009, 19:40]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment Moley, I had read your posts about having problems with GRUB, and I had been thinking about it. That was part of the reason that I specifically mentioned that I made a clean install, not an upgrade; during the installation I let it install GRUB.
[April 27, 2009, 9:06]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment What was your experience with Grub when you used EXT4. I had problems with being locked out of my computer when I used Ext4, with Windows XP and Windows 7 already installed and booted by Grub previously installed using Ext3.
[April 25, 2009, 0:24]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment My experience has been a bit different, in that I had no trouble getting GRUB to boot Vista, when I installed VIsta first and then Ubuntu. GRUB even shows that it knows the Vista boot is "special", because when I do it with XP Pro, the GRUB boot...
[June 18, 2008, 9:27]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment Moley - I remember that version too, and that's the version that I wish we had back, but I guess that "we" are in the minority, and questions about how, where and whether to install GRUB look pretty intimidating for ordinary users.
[September 5, 2009, 14:15]
LookSmart draws on desktop power
News LookSmart's long-shot bet on Grub highlights the race to innovate in the search engine arena. In January, LookSmart quietly bought the assets of Grub, an Oklahoma-based developer of technology that lets people donate their computers' otherwise...
[March 21, 2003, 12:18]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog During installation, it no longer asks anything about installing GRUB, it always installs it to the MBR. This is actually not a new change to this Alpha release, I'm not sure when they started doing this, but in my case, because of my multi-boot...
[September 4, 2009, 8:56]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Beta
Blog First, in the category of "mentioned before" and "significant", we have GRUB-PC, also known as Grub 2, which is the standard bootloader with Ubuntu 9.10. The last time I mentioned it, I said that by going to the "Advanced" button in the final...
[October 9, 2009, 14:03]
Quad-Boot Fun, and A Correction
Blog Comment One point to note is not to delete/add any partitions preceeding any existing installation as it changes the order in the partition table and so may deny access unless you can still gain access to amend Grub.
[July 2, 2008, 15:26]
Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' Release Candidate
Blog Comment What I would remind people is, that if you are installing using the new Ext4 file system on a computer that already has Grub installed, you must do the 'grub-install' command after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 in order to reinstall your boot loader...
[April 20, 2009, 8:32]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment It's very possible that when you install on a separate drive, it will automatically install GRUB to the MBR of that drive, thus leaving your internal drive intact. Here's another thought that I haven't been able to verify yet - perhaps the...
[September 5, 2009, 9:34]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Alpha 5 - A Few Quick Comments
Blog Comment The situation is made a bit more complex by the fact that whether or not GRUB understands ext4 is completely independent of whether the Linux system itself understands it; openSuSE 11.1 and Fedora 11 are good examples of this; openSuSE 11.1 doesn...
[September 7, 2009, 20:57]
