Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

[Drake Donahue]

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From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub


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and Duncan opined:
> Any insights into why nobody seems to be doing the LiveCD/DVD GRUB boot > 
> now, and why everyone's using ISOLinux instead?  Is it just that ISOLinux
> is the tried and true method that everyone was using before GRUB became
> an option, and new guys are simply copying stuff from other LiveCDs that
> obviously works?  Seems to me the direct-boot emulation-less way would be
> MUCH simpler and more flexible, so why isn't everyone (or even a suitable
> number of "anyones") using it?
>
> I've on my list of things to do to go ask the Gentoo releng team as
> well.  Why aren't /they/ using grub, since it's the default once the
> system is installed.  Seems it would be more efficient than shipping
> ISOLinux and then using it for nothing other than the CD/DVD boot, since
> grub could at least potentially be dual-purposed both to booting the CD,
> and to installing directly from there to the new system, as well.
>

The Gparted LiveCD has switched from isolinux to grub sometime in the last 
few months. Perhaps a trend is starting?
The grub boot menu on this latest Gparted LiveCD does what I set out to do 
when I got into writing a grub boot cd. In explanation, it will act as a 
rescue CD with premade menu choices that will boot the first hard drive MBR, 
first hard drive's first, second, third, or fourth partition, second hard 
drive MBR. or the second hard drive's first partition. Thus, without 
advertising it, the Gparted gang have produced a grub rescue cd. The only 
lack is premade menu entry(ies) to setup grub on the hard drive(s). However 
dropping from the gparted boot menu into the command line to type :
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
with the knowledge that BIOS and grub are in agreement as to which drive is 
hd0 does not seem to be a big deal.
Clonezilla, which claims Norton ghost type powers to clone drives and make 
drive images (including over the network) is also now on the Gparted LiveCD.
Gparted LiveCD is really really on my must have list with this edition.

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Disk boot order in grub

[Duncan]

"Drake Donahue" <donahue95@comcast.net> posted
001201c7ee77$2eaf7c80$0200a8c0@iwillxp333, excerpted below, on  Mon, 03
Sep 2007 18:10:04 -0400:

> The Gparted LiveCD has switched from isolinux to grub sometime in the
> last few months. Perhaps a trend is starting?

Very cool! =8^)

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