From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RP3xt-0007xH-Pf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:09:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7225A21C1F5; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340B921C225 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm12 with SMTP id m12so4676438yen.40 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:05:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OretklLDjSKGueP5K0gEmjJLo1ACUYFQ5L60TUD0/b0=; b=wPK4/1Fyw6m9fv+BylnpoxxRi4xm7izx4vJyKH72IZcsBMfyhDNHx+aEHZ+Uj1Z91e UppK8vQcbt0cSDZsMDNWzHgU9aGFZoRtlim66N4bSp5aVNvz0MrPPpGrD7sv+fKnUVsG sI8/6HSJzxIr+DBl68KyF7pW0l5K5HkA7ZYOk= Received: by 10.236.155.74 with SMTP id i50mr872554yhk.23.1321067142210; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:05:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-124-88.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.124.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m33sm39432059ann.4.2011.11.11.19.05.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:05:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EBDE283.20802@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:05:39 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro References: <4EBC1707.5030103@gmail.com> <4EBD3738.9090203@gmail.com> <4EBDB26A.5080800@gmail.com> <20111112004057.07ded451@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111112004057.07ded451@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e5b6d90a-51a5-4243-9da6-cbd483171f43 X-Archives-Hash: 436499e30d6ca10460d8fdcffcbb58c8 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:26 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all >>> the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost >>> tolerable. >> < cough cough> Care to share how you did that little trick? I like >> to see the stuff scrolling up myself. > Hold Shift during boot to bring up the GRUB menu, press E to edit, remove > the splash and quiet options and press Ctrl-X to boot. It's almost the > same as legacy GRUB, with just enough changes to confuse people :( > > Tp make it permanent, edit /etc/default/grub, remove the splash and quiet > options, save the file and run grub2-mkconfig (or the wrapper script that > Ubuntu provide, update-grub?). > >> Is there a way after the install to add a Windoze OS to grub and all? >> I unplugged the windoze drive to make sure it didn't mess that up OR I >> mess up something. So, grub, or some bootloader, is installed on the >> wrong drive in this case. > Plug the drive back in and run grub2-mkconfig. It will generate a new > menu with a Windows option. No manual editing needed. > > Oh nooooooooo. It can't be that easy. O_O I'm going to screw something up you watch. lol Dale :-) :-) Oh, how do I boot it the first time tho? When I plug the windoze drive up, there won't be a grub. Yet anyway. Hmmmmm.