I experienced grub2 a bit when I ran Ubuntu Karmic for a few months. When I changed to Arch I was actually relieved to see grub1 was the default. grub2 has some nice abilities. It's neat how it finds the OSes and updates itself. But the flip side of that is that when you do want to modify something, you have to jump through a lot hoops. I think I prefer just editing menu.lst the way I want and being done with it. grub2 has so many files to maintain to accomplish the same thing. So I'm in no hurry to change.
Just my two bytes.
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1) The guide is badly written.
2) There is no interest in this subject.
3) You expect me to put it in the wiki if I think it's useful.
4) The wiki is not the place for such guide.
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I used these steps this morning to recover HD (dualboot ubuntu+win) of a colleague of mine.
Very useful post.
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Thank you. So the key is <nowiki> </nowiki>, good to know.
I see that the article was merged nicely into GRUB2 wiki page. That's great!
There are two problems with the content though.
1) "The available commands in GRUB rescue can be listed by entering "help"."
This proved to be 100% wrong in my case. I couldn't use "help".
2) Whoever did the cut and merge, omitted the "set prefix" command.
I checked it about 10 times and if the prefix is wrong you can't use "insmod" at all even if the root variable is right!
Since "set prefix" is the core of the problem it must be included.
Otherwise, nice merge.
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I think this is something that should be merged with the GRUB2 article; possibly under the heading "Using the interactive prompt" or something along those lines. I may play around with it later this afternoon.
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So what is the next step? The GRUB2 discussion page is almost empty, no one will look there.
Who moderates the wiki? Can I contact him somehow?
If I might ask one favor: would you please modify the topic so that it says GRUB2 instead of just GRUB? That way I can easily find it if I need it.
Thanks!
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