[lug] grub2 boot (ubuntu 10.04)

[Dan Ferris]

Just so you don't continue to assume you are the only one who is 
brilliant, I have looked at Ubuntu's grub config extensively as well as 
using grub2 on a USB stick to boot ISO images.  Writing my own grub 
config on Ubuntu seems like a total waste of time.

On 8/20/2011 6:32 AM, rm at tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:12:31PM -0600, Dan Ferris wrote:
>> Wow, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks the Grub2 config in
>> Ubuntu is insanity. :)
> Sorry to drop in as a just-lurker: let's not forget - it isn't grub2
> thats insane, it's ubuntu's grub setup monstrosity [1]. There's nothing
> that stops you writing a grub configuration file and deactivate the grub
> updating "magic". Have a look at '/boot/grub/grub.cfg' for a good
> starter.
>
> Cheers, Ralf Mattes
>
>> Dan
>>
>> On 8/19/2011 3:45 PM, David L. Willson wrote:
>>> Davide,
>>>
>>> I tend to agree with you about grub 2, but I reach a different conclusion. Rather than pining (pine'ing, get it?) for the really old days of lilo, I just pine for the slightly less new days of grub 1. I wish the config file was still one simple, relatively readable thing. Extensible is good, but it seems that they went WAY past the point of diminishing returns.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I think it would be useful to see these files:
>>>
>>> /boot/grub/grub.cfg
>>> /etc/default/grub
>>> any file from /etc/grub.d/ that has been modified recently (recently = anytime in or near the days of your suffering)
>>>
>>> Maybe, between all of us, we can find a bad line in the default stanza or something.
>>>
>>> David L. Willson
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>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Davide Del Vento"<davide.del.vento at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"<lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>>>> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 3:16:52 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [lug] grub2 boot (ubuntu 10.04)
>>>>
>>>>>> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
>>>>>> initrd /initrd.img
>>>>>> boot
>>>>>>
>>> ...
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