Generating a new grub.conf ??
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Wed May 7 18:22:18 UTC 2008
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi Bradely;
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:03 -0500, Bradley Pursley wrote:
> > Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 06:51:45 -0400,
> > > William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is it not possible to make a Red Hat utility that just repeats the grub
> > >> part of the Anaconda installation process. Perhaps it could have a gui
> > >> frontend in order to make some simple adjustments, but nonetheless a
> > >> user/administrator could re-install just the grub part of their system
> > >> without having to run the entire Fedora installation.
> > >>
> > >
> > > You can run grub to reinstall the part that is in the MBR.
> > > You use the 'root' command to tell it what partition has the config file
> > > and 'setup' to write to the MBR of a particular hard drive. (If you are
> > > using software raid 1, you want to do this manually as the install only
> > > writes the MBR of one drive.)
> > > Otherwise the grub.conf file is plain text and you can use your favorite
> > > text editor to edit it.
> > If I understood the question properly, I believe it was how do you
> > install / configure grub (for dual booting was the specific question)
> > with no previous grub.conf file and no knowledge or experience with
> > grub. The question was not how to re-install grub. I am also awaiting
> > the answer to this question because I also had this problem and had to
> > totally re-install Fedora just because the grub.conf file got hosed and,
> > as of yet, no one has answered this question.
> >
> > Bradley
> >
> Actually the question is "how do you install / configure grub (for dual
> booting was the specific question) with or *without* previous grub.conf
> file and knowledge or experience with grub". As I have pointed out, I
> do have some grub experience and I did get thinks working just fine. I
> was able to install grub from the grub shell and install with 'run' and
> 'setup' from my rescue disk, and then mount '/boot' and write a
> grub.conf file with emacs.
>
> My question was based on the steep learning curve of the first couple of
> times I manually installed grub. Why isn't there a simple Red Hat or
> Fedora utility that duplicates the Anaconda installer actions? It would
> save on the learning curve for new users and get users back in action
> faster when they run into grub problems and wipeouts. Since the basic
> code already exists, it would seem a simple utility to create. I could
> be used from either the 'root user' login or the rescue disk.
>
> I ask here because I have been wrong before about how simple it actually
> is to create something.
>
> --
> Regards Bill
1. We're using grub 0.97
2, The GRUB developers say "no more work on old code. Use version 2."
When will version 2 ever get used by Fedora?
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