> The default is to install grub2 to > the MBR. It will detect you OS and allow you to select which > OS to boot. the grub2 os-prober is much better and, with the > complexity of configuring grub2, most people go with the > defaults. > os-prober much better? I disagree! with old grub, FreeBSD was detected. Now it was a major pain to get to triple boot a machine. I had a typo and thanks to folks here on test list, I got it going. But I had to play around with 40_ custom and add the freebsd entry there and then modify /etc/grub2/custom or whatever it is called so I could remove the rhgb and quiet parameters and then run grub2-???. Initially I had edited it manually and removed the lines. But then kernel updates made the rhgb quiet come back :( > > It is possible to do as you wish with grub2, it is highly > customizable, more so then grub1, but more complex and the > documentation makes for some long reading. In addition there > are some differences between how Ubuntu and Fedora configure > grub2. > > See also: > > http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/grub-2.html > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2 > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html > > You can set bg images and set the order of OS if you so > desire. You have to fool grub2 and modify _10 add a number less than that so it could become the default, but it is workable. > > While I appreciate you may document on your web site, > contributing to fedora documentation is likely to be more > beneficial as it can be peer reviewed and updated by > others. > > I appreciate what you are trying to accomplish (I used to do > the same with grub 1), but, IMO, with grub2, it is a long > run for a short slide. It seems to me you are making it more > difficult then it has to be and frustrated by an increase in > complexity in configuration and a lack of reading / > understanding the documentation. > I read and read and read again many times. The documentation is not up to par. However being perseverant and asking help about a situation and caring people willing to help, then these issues are not major. But it is far from being easy. > > good luck to you, hope the links I gave you help or that you > get it running the way you want. Perhaps someone else can > help with specific scripting. > The question here for Tom or others, that used to install grub to a specific partition and use chainload to boot the different OSes, is indeed a pain with this grub2. But with extra help, and patience, It can be done. Tom has worked it out, but I wonder if he has saved the changes in the /etc/grub2/default file so that updates won't mess any of his changes? Best Regards, Antonio -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
