GAG boot loader needs improvement IMHO

[Eric "Shubes"]

JT Moree wrote:
> Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>> Is there some reason you don't simply put /boot in a separate partition?
> 
>> If/when the mbr gets clobbered, restoring grub to the mbr is easy. Simply
>> boot a knoppix or rescue cd and:
>> # grub
>> grub> root (hd0,0)
>> grub> setup (hd0)
>> grub> quit
>> # reboot
> 
> Yes, that's what I used to do.  I was using one that doesn't go with any
> system and storing other cross system data there too like a map of
> partitions.
> 
> I'm tired of doing it that way.  This is the process I have recently
> gone thru:
> 
> which /boot do I use? 

I don't understand why you have to ask this question. Do you have separate
boot partitionS, or a single *shared* boot partition? If it's shared there's
only one, so what's the point of this question?

The only problem I ran into with this setup was Ubuntu seeing the CentOS
kernels and thinking that they were Ubuntu and adding them to menu.lst when
they were already there (outside of the magic portion). No big deal removing
them from the menu.lst though.

> The one for kubuntu or debian or Fedora or . . .
> perhaps the one that I mostly use as the primary desktop?
> What about when I change from debian to kubuntu as my primary desktop
> and blow debian away?

The single *shared* /boot handles this nicely.

> So I made it a sorta standalone grub.
> how do I update grub if it's not tied to a particular distro?  Mount the
> grub partition on any random distro that I choose and run grub-install
> /dev/hda.  That might work but some distros compile grub to use slightly
> different file names than others and it might not work.  There may be
> other issues also.
> 
> Yes I can and might go back to using Grub as the primary boot loader but
> for now GAG is working nicely.  It just looks dated.
> 

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-Eric 'shubes'