From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub-install vs. manual install
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 21:00:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701082100.58652.uwix@iway.na> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070108135459.447f74b7@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On 08 January 2007 15:54, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:31:42 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > If you want (or are forced) to have /boot and your MBR on different
> > harddrives (*not* partitions) invoke grub and do the manual install as
> > described in the handbook rather than use grub-install which simply
> > assumes they are on the same drive.
>
> I've found grub-install to be flakey on a number of occasions, so I
> always do it manually. there's only two commands to remember and type,
> sometime I even manage it without reading the docs :)
Honestly, I have written them on a knotes popup on my desktop. ;-)
Uwe
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-08 13:31 [gentoo-user] grub-install vs. manual install Uwe Thiem
2007-01-08 13:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-08 19:00 ` Uwe Thiem [this message]
2007-01-08 20:31 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-01-08 22:36 ` Neil Bothwick
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