GRUB

[Karl Larsen]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Aldo Foot wrote:
>>> On Jan 25, 2008 2:20 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>  
>>>>     I looked at what Google has for grub and of course the info 
>>>> grub and
>>>> the best for a person not an expert, is an article in the Linux 
>>>> book for
>>>> year 2001 where they talk about using floppy disks. All that I read 
>>>> uses
>>>> language that is hard for someone to understand and never do any of 
>>>> the
>>>> writing show applications of grub in use.
>>>>
>>>>      Has anyone seen a paper that is down to earth and uses 
>>>> examples to
>>>> show grub use with Linux and Fedora?
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I myself have been wanting to find something like cookbook format.
>>>
>>> Did you see this? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html, 
>>> which
>>> is dated May 2005. BTW this doc has the solution of a hidden partition
>>> problem that
>>> someone had earlier.
>>>
>>>
>>> ~af
>>>
>>>   
>>    No sorry this is not what I wanted. It is written by the Grub 
>> people and it is all about how grub works. I want one where how grub 
>> works is provided by experiments that work. And why does /devsda6 = 
>> hd(0,5)?
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
> It's the primary drive. The numbering scheme starts as zero so 
> 0,1,2,3,4,5 is used. They are different programs with different 
> methods of identifying hard drives.
>
Jim I know that but what I am looking for is an already written paper 
that covers the use of grub. So far nothing has shown up.

Karl


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