[colug-432] Grub 2.0

[Travis Sidelinger]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
> On Monday, November 21, 2011 09:49:48 AM Travis Sidelinger wrote:
>> Has anyone worked with GRUB 2.0 yet?
>>   # grub2-install --version
>>   grub-install (GNU GRUB 1.98
>>
>> I've been trying to create a bootable USB drive with a variety of boot
>> options
>
> That's almost exactly the extent to which I've messed with grub2. (I also
> upgraded to it on my desktop system, but I didn't do much configuring there.)
>
> Here are the cheat codes:
> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/
> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/multibootlinux/grub.cfg

I've found a number of other sites too that pretty much have the same
instructions.  None of them have acknowledged the problems I've been
running into.  Once I get my Fedora16 desktop working, I've give this
a run again on Grub v1.99.


>
>> 3. I can't get "chainloader" to work at all.
>
> I haven't gotten it to work either, at least when trying to boot an XP CD
> image, but I considered that one to be a bonus after getting Linux images to
> boot, and therefore didn't try very hard.
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