[SM-Users] [SM-USERS] Grub beyond 0.97 version?

[Javier Vasquez]

Hi !

I've used what used to be called grub2, which is grub beyond 0.9*
(latest on that series is 0.97), and it's pretty nice. There's no
bootsplash support, but there's native colors supports and others...

Any ways, I wanted to use grub 1.95 version, but as there are spells
depending upon grub I don't really know how if just a personal spell
would take care of things.

Has anyone dealt with this before? Any suggestions? Also, can an
initial installation skip the bootloader step? I mean, in a multi OS
boot system ideally one might allow only one of the OS's to control
and mantain the bootloader, and one might not want to touch the
already existant boot loader, but instead might want to add the new
system to its menu... Is this somehow possible?

Thanks,

[Javier Vasquez]

Post by Javier Vasquez
Hi !
I've used what used to be called grub2, which is grub beyond 0.9*
(latest on that series is 0.97), and it's pretty nice. There's no
bootsplash support, but there's native colors supports and others...
Any ways, I wanted to use grub 1.95 version, but as there are spells
depending upon grub I don't really know how if just a personal spell
would take care of things.
Has anyone dealt with this before? Any suggestions? Also, can an
initial installation skip the bootloader step? I mean, in a multi OS
boot system ideally one might allow only one of the OS's to control
and mantain the bootloader, and one might not want to touch the
already existant boot loader, but instead might want to add the new
system to its menu... Is this somehow possible?
Thanks,
--
Javier

Just re-sending, since I'm not sure if this reached the list, :(.

[David Brown]

Post by Javier Vasquez
I've used what used to be called grub2, which is grub beyond 0.9*
(latest on that series is 0.97), and it's pretty nice. There's no
bootsplash support, but there's native colors supports and others...

I tried to use it but there wasn't enough documentation on how to get
it to work so after developing a local spell I didn't push it
anywhere.

Post by Javier Vasquez
Any ways, I wanted to use grub 1.95 version, but as there are spells
depending upon grub I don't really know how if just a personal spell
would take care of things.

Well really they depend on some BOOTLOADER and grub lilo yaboot silo
elilo all provide BOOTLOADER. Check out the spell writing handbook on
the wiki for more information about provides
)http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Spell_Writing_Handbook).

Post by Javier Vasquez
Has anyone dealt with this before? Any suggestions? Also, can an
initial installation skip the bootloader step? I mean, in a multi OS
boot system ideally one might allow only one of the OS's to control
and mantain the bootloader, and one might not want to touch the
already existant boot loader, but instead might want to add the new
system to its menu... Is this somehow possible?

I tried and failed. To get it to compile was pretty easy but to
understand how to build all the modules into a boot image that you
then have to install to your mbr was weird and I didn't understand it
fully at the time (since then I've built my own bootloader in school
so I might be able to do better if I try again).

Thanks,
- David Brown