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  • From: "David Brown" <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] [SM-USERS] Grub beyond 0.97 version?
  • Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 07:25:09 -0700

> > I've used what used to be called grub2, which is grub beyond 0.9*
> > (latest on that series is 0.97), and it's pretty nice. There's no
> > bootsplash support, but there's native colors supports and others...

I tried to use it but there wasn't enough documentation on how to get
it to work so after developing a local spell I didn't push it
anywhere.

> > Any ways, I wanted to use grub 1.95 version, but as there are spells
> > depending upon grub I don't really know how if just a personal spell
> > would take care of things.

Well really they depend on some BOOTLOADER and grub lilo yaboot silo
elilo all provide BOOTLOADER. Check out the spell writing handbook on
the wiki for more information about provides
)http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Spell_Writing_Handbook).

> > Has anyone dealt with this before? Any suggestions? Also, can an
> > initial installation skip the bootloader step? I mean, in a multi OS
> > boot system ideally one might allow only one of the OS's to control
> > and mantain the bootloader, and one might not want to touch the
> > already existant boot loader, but instead might want to add the new
> > system to its menu... Is this somehow possible?

I tried and failed. To get it to compile was pretty easy but to
understand how to build all the modules into a boot image that you
then have to install to your mbr was weird and I didn't understand it
fully at the time (since then I've built my own bootloader in school
so I might be able to do better if I try again).

Thanks,
- David Brown




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