[ale] GRUB2 in May or June? (Was: Re: Failing GRUB)

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 15:08 -0400, Michael Trausch wrote:
> 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.

If we can pull it off in May, I'll be there for sure.  If it gets pushed
back to June, I'm afraid I will be unavailable on the 21st and miss
it.  :-(

Regards,
Mike

> On Mar 18, 2012 2:04 PM, "Cornelis van Dijk" <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks Mike
> >
> > for your response. Unfortunately, I am physically unable to come to
> > your presentation (if you give one) but I would appreciate some
> > relevant pointers.
> >
> > I was sometimes confused by the choice of booting from the MBR or from
> > a root partition, with conflicting information from the surrounding
> > help files. Functionally, what difference does it make and is this
> > still the case in GRUB2?
> >
> > Cor
> >
> > On 3/17/12, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On 03/17/2012 12:51 PM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> > >> On 03/17/2012 12:15 PM, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
> > >>> Is there a way to transition from GRUB to GRUB2 without wrecking
> > >>> my boot process? (or worse). I have SuSE 12.1  as my main OS. It
> > >>> does not have GRUB2.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, you can actually chain-load GRUB 2 from GRUB Legacy in order
> > >> to test it.  Essentially what you do for that is install GRUB 2 on
> > >> your partition, while GRUB Legacy lives on your MBR.  When you're
> > >> happy and comfortable with GRUB 2 you can "promote" it to the MBR
> > >> on your drive and it will only then replace GRUB Legacy.
> > >>
> > >> If it works for the group, I'd be willing to present on GRUB 2
> > >> again at the meeting in either May or June, because I have to
> > >> update the presentation a little bit to fit the relevant topics
> > >> that have been asked recently on the ML.
> > >>
> > >> --- Mike
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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