Re: Grub Manual Install Question

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:00:53 -0800, sebastian.h.schmidt wrote:
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First of all, let me say that changing the bootloader without knowing
exactly what you are doing can lead to an unbootable system or otherwise
do great damage to your system.

The problem is, currently i dont have a working (grub/lilo)
bootloader, currently its working with the EFI system of the Mac,
thats how i start MAC Os and Windows
My advice is for you to brush up on the proper nomenclature, for both
disks in the PC world and for grub. This post includes the rules for disk
partitioning in the PC world:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/msg/d3544c061662cacf

thx for the hint, but since i have a Mac and this system is a little bit
different to the mac it seems not applicable for this case. since a mac
normaly uses the EFI system and not the MBR system anymore.

Right. The notes I listed above are for _PC_ architecture only. I have no
knowledge of how the Macintosh boots, (and so far no need to learn.) Grub,
version 2, includes EFI support. I have only used Grub (legacy).

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I have to work with the sdb etc stuff because at first i want grub to
start not modify its entries using a Live CD. and thats how i understand
it will be done using /dev/sdb... ?

Maybe, maybe not. The live CD environment is likely to be similar to a
final install on an external hard drive, but there can be subtle
differences. For example, the Linux kernel recognizes devices in the order
in which they are seen. Often times, a device "appears" shortly after its
associated kernel module is loaded. This means that drives may be sda in
one context, and sdb in another depending on which module is loaded first,
etc.

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Good luck.

--
Douglas Mayne
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