[ale] Failing GRUB

[Rich Faulkner]

Great.  That's just what I need...MORE inspiration to do kewl things....

Thanks Michael!   

(All more the reason why I suggested doing an ALE Meeting topic of GRUB2
- for those of us who could use a primer)

Of course I could get online and read and do this solo...read it, play
with it, and learn how to do it...but sometimes it just goes better with
friends and ALE.

Cheers!  

RinL



On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 16:51 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 13:06 -0400, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> > Thanks for the responses. Is anybody out there using GRUB2?
> 
> Absolutely!  I was finally able to build the kind of multiboot USB key
> that I've wanted.  Tried doing it with extlinux and syslinux and grub
> and what not.  Tried merging Unetbootin images and livecd-iso-to-disk
> and runlive usb images into a common format, all failures.  Tried for
> ages.  I'd get close and then add another entry and the whole mess would
> be unbootable.  Played with Casper boot.  No joy.
> 
> Finally ran into some instructions up at pendrive.com on creating
> multiboot keys from the command line in Linux using grub2 with some
> examples.  That worked great for casper based live images like Ubuntu
> and some direct images like tinycore.  That was a start.  Wouldn't work
> for Fedora, though.
> 
> Found some instructions for Fedora on another site that included some
> recommendations to use the startup files from the efi directory of the
> runlive iso.  Wow...  That worked great with grub2 as well.  Added some
> NST (Network Security Toolkit) stuff (custom and stock) and got that on
> there.
> 
> Hmmm...  Had to get a bigger key...
> 
> I now have a pair of 64G USB keys (always, ALWAYS have a backup key).
> 
> Added some IBM stuff and a new cryptoboot setup for my laptop and was
> able to lock down and reencrypt the boot partition on my laptop (now
> must use the USB key to boot).
> 
> I now have 64G keys with the following...
> 
> Laptop Crypto Boot
> CentOS 6.2 (3 variations of builds)
> Fedora 15 RunLive Desktop
> Fedora 16 RunLive Desktop
> NST 2.13 (Fedora 13 based, customized, several configurations)
> NST 2.15 (Fedora 15 based, stock from web, several configuration)
> Parted Magic (had to start from a Unetbootin built image - PITA)
> Ubuntu 11.10
> BackTrack 5 (Forensic tools)
> TinyCore Plus
> 
> Plus it can chainload to the harddrive of the system if I want.
> 
> All selectable through layers of menus and submenus.
> 
> It also has a common encrypted home partition common to the runlive
> images.  I haven't added freedos or Minix to it yet.
> 
> Some of the images are casper boot.  Some are the efi stuff (Fedora and
> CentOS).  Some are direct loaded images (Parted Magic) and some are
> actual loopback iso images using the grub2 loopback feature (Tinycore
> and Backtrack).
> 
> The keys are less than half full.
> 
> Yes.  I like grub2.  It brings together stuff I needed to make all that
> work from one key.
> 
> > Cor
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
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