<p>I will cover this in the talk and have slides available. The talk will also be recorded, if current practices remain stable. Will reply in more detail later.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 18, 2012 2:04 PM, "Cornelis van Dijk" <<a href="mailto:cor.angela0@gmail.com">cor.angela0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks Mike<br>
<br>
for your response. Unfortunately, I am physically unable to come to<br>
your presentation (if you give one) but I would appreciate some<br>
relevant pointers.<br>
<br>
I was sometimes confused by the choice of booting from the MBR or from<br>
a root partition, with conflicting information from the surrounding<br>
help files. Functionally, what difference does it make and is this<br>
still the case in GRUB2?<br>
<br>
Cor<br>
<br>
On 3/17/12, Scott Castaline <<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 03/17/2012 12:51 PM, <a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a> wrote:<br>
>> On 03/17/2012 12:15 PM, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:<br>
>>> Is there a way to transition from GRUB to GRUB2 without wrecking<br>
>>> my boot process? (or worse). I have SuSE 12.1 as my main OS. It<br>
>>> does not have GRUB2.<br>
>><br>
>> Yes, you can actually chain-load GRUB 2 from GRUB Legacy in order<br>
>> to test it. Essentially what you do for that is install GRUB 2 on<br>
>> your partition, while GRUB Legacy lives on your MBR. When you're<br>
>> happy and comfortable with GRUB 2 you can "promote" it to the MBR<br>
>> on your drive and it will only then replace GRUB Legacy.<br>
>><br>
>> If it works for the group, I'd be willing to present on GRUB 2<br>
>> again at the meeting in either May or June, because I have to<br>
>> update the presentation a little bit to fit the relevant topics<br>
>> that have been asked recently on the ML.<br>
>><br>
>> --- Mike<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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> +1 I be very interested in that<br>
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