11 Nov
2015
11 Nov
'15
12:07 p.m.
Steven Walker <sjb.walker(a)gmail.com> said, in message
CAORZ3UB2gD28=O6NYkCuHv4J9xS8kYF9R+bSYEgyD80zrkZx2w(a)mail.gmail.com:
I hate GrUB2 :) I always had the feeling that it was designed for and
by enterprise users.
To be fair, Grub 2 is quite nice if you ignore all the dross piled
on dross that installers put into the grub config file. A hand-written
grub 2 config can be pretty concise and self-explanatory:
Here's an entry off my "Rescue/Install" pen drive:
menuentry "Rescue Image" {
linux /images/rescue.x86_64.krn
initrd /images/rescue.x86_64.igz
}
Here's one to boot a Mint 17.2 live ISO image stored as a file in /isos
on the pen drive:
menuentry "Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64-bit" {
set isofile='/isos/linuxmint-17.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso'
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/linuxmint.seed boot=casper
iso-scan/filename=$isofile quiet splash --
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}
Cheers,
Alun.
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Alun Jones, auj(a)aber.ac.uk, 01970 622637
Mathemateg, Ffiseg a Chyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Aberystwyth
Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science, Aberystwyth University