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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Grub and longhorn loader Post 302193525 by dancingfool on Friday 9th of May 2008 04:16:31 PM
Old 05-09-2008
Grub and Longhorn loader

Thank you for your reply. I am indeed chainloading grub to the longhorn loader (which is Microsoft's answer to grub used by Vista and Longhorn). My mbr points to Grub which points to initrd, which I can edit manually (gotta love linux for your ability to do almost anything with a simple text editor). I have no idea how the longhorn loader works, however, so I was concerned that when I restore my mbr using my bootable cd (you still use floppy disks?) I would loose the longhorn loader since I cannot simply restore my current working grub configuration. I have no worries that after restoring my mbr I can get grub and any posix compatible OS, but I know very little about this new longhorn loader. I will go to my test network and install vista on a new drive, then install XP which will kill my longhorn loader, then install FC 7, I am confident that grub will indeed find the longhorn loader even after the XP wipe of the mbr, but I want to do it in a test environment before I try to install XP on my tri-booting GUTSY, Vista, FC 7 laptop (believe me I would be happy to eliminate all Microsoft products from all of my computers but my field laptop requires uber-compatability beyond the capabilities of wine or cedega). I will let you know how it goes.

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GRUB(8)                                                                 FSF                                                                GRUB(8)

NAME
grub - the grub shell SYNOPSIS
grub [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
Enter the GRand Unified Bootloader command shell. --batch turn on batch mode for non-interactive use --boot-drive=DRIVE specify stage2 boot_drive [default=0x0] --config-file=FILE specify stage2 config_file [default=/boot/grub/menu.lst] --device-map=FILE use the device map file FILE --help display this message and exit --hold wait until a debugger will attach --install-partition=PAR specify stage2 install_partition [default=0x20000] --no-config-file do not use the config file --no-curses do not use curses --no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive --no-pager do not use internal pager --preset-menu use the preset menu --probe-second-floppy probe the second floppy drive --read-only do not write anything to devices --verbose print verbose messages --version print version information and exit REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>. SEE ALSO
update-grub(8), grub-install(8). The full documentation for grub is maintained as a Texinfo manual in the grub-legacy-doc package. If the info and grub programs are prop- erly installed at your site, the command info grub should give you access to the complete manual. grub (GNU GRUB 0.97) January 2013 GRUB(8)
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