Grub Manual

[Les Mikesell]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>
>>> You should do your homework now, and make a proper effort at 
>>> understanding the existing GRUB documentation. It may be difficult to 
>>> understand (though I don't find it so),
>>
>> Is there a sure-fire way to know the right 'root (hdx,0)' invocation 
>> when you are installing grub on the 2nd disk of a raid1 pair when you 
>> expect the drive id to shift in case the primary drive dies (scsi) or 
>> when you don't (ide)?  Of course in the IDE case many failure modes 
>> will make the machine not boot until you remove the dead one, in which 
>> case you might as well shift it to the primary position anyway, and 
>> you'd still like it to boot.
>>
> I think grub pretty much follows the BIOS.

All this talk about grub reminds me of something I wanted to do a few 
years ago and never quite succeeded, so maybe someone else will know how.

I'd like to have a locally installed system, but have one of the boot 
choices be to network-boot into an LTSP thin-client. I don't want to 
just PXE boot because I want the default after a timeout to be a local 
OS.  I thought some versions of grub used to be able to do the 
equivalent of an etherboot internally, but that may be gone now.  If I 
have a stand-alone bootable floppy or CD that will network-boot the way 
I want, is there a way to copy that to the hard drive and make a grub 
menu choice that will load it?

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   Les Mikesell
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