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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head>I actually like grub 2 .<br>
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Admittedly that is due to understanding gleaned from a mammoth debugging session where its userspace liner was adamant about doing the wrong thing. <br>
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It's sort of like mini kernel, custom linked for the modules needed to read /boot, then extra modules can be dynamically loaded to do other stuff.<br>
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Grub can actually read ext2 filesystems, so as long as the multiple kernels have different names they can all coexistent in a single /boot. (and you are not restricted to ext2 either).<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">David Halliday <david.halliday@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Yes, they can all sit under /boot/<br>
Grub2 and grub legacy can both do that.<br>
Just back it up before hand just in case but I never had problems till I tried to install windows.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 10, 2012 8:30 PM, "James Morris" <<a href="mailto:jwm.art.net@gmail.com">jwm.art.net@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 2 February 2012 06:53, Peter Childs <<a href="mailto:pchilds@bcs.org">pchilds@bcs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Grub2 too feels like a advanced/revampted version of Lilo, not<br>
> any improvement on Grub-legacy at all. Its fine once you get used to it, but<br>
> its no where near as simple and slic as Grub-legacy is ie a single text file<br>
> you just change and it happens!.<br>
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I'm thinking about trying syslinux instead.<br>
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I want to share a /boot partition with sub directories for each distro<br>
ie, /boot/arch, /boot/debian, etc. I don't think it's possible with<br>
grub legacy and grub2 is too scary. Anyone tried sharing a /boot<br>
partition?<br>
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James.<br>
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