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    From Gilberto F da Silva@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 15:04:50 2020
    The look of the grub configured by Mageia is the most pleasant of the distributions experienced by me, however, in a real machine it has the inconvenience of always writing in the MBR, erasing the configuration of
    some other boot loader.

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    Gilberto F da Silva

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 15:37:12 2020
    On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 11:04:50 -0300, Gilberto F da Silva wrote:
    The look of the grub configured by Mageia is the most pleasant of the distributions experienced by me,

    As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
    If you are talking about color/art, I can not argue about that.
    If Menu selections, not so much on a multi-os/release install.

    Easy fix for me was to create a script in /etc/grub.d to create my own
    menu.

    however, in a real machine it has the
    inconvenience of always writing in the MBR, erasing the configuration of
    some other boot loader.

    Very true. Due to numerous boot loaders, I would suggest it is too much
    to ask a distribution to support all of those, especially Mageia which
    is a community supported distribution who do the work for free.


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  • From Gilberto F da Silva@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 21:13:47 2020
    Bit Twister wrote:
    On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 11:04:50 -0300, Gilberto F da Silva wrote:
    The look of the grub configured by Mageia is the most pleasant of the
    distributions experienced by me,

    As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
    If you are talking about color/art, I can not argue about that.
    If Menu selections, not so much on a multi-os/release install.

    Easy fix for me was to create a script in /etc/grub.d to create my own
    menu.

    I have a dislike for grub. I find it very complicated by the amount of time I use it. Up to version 4 or 5 of Mageia the installer allowed to
    choose the root partition to install grub. Now what I do is install lilo
    on Mageia so I can start from the root partition.


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    Gilberto F da Silva

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sun Jul 5 21:46:33 2020
    On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 10:04:50 -0400, Gilberto F da Silva <gfs1989@gmx.net> wrote:

    The look of the grub configured by Mageia is the most pleasant of the distributions experienced by me, however, in a real machine it has the inconvenience of always writing in the MBR, erasing the configuration of
    some other boot loader.

    I greatly dislike the change too. Unfortunately grub-legacy is not supported any
    more, and will not work with newer kernels. The grub2 and grub2-efi packages do
    not support installing in the partition boot record like grub-legacy did.

    I used to have all of my testing installs on one disk, with grub-legacy installed
    on the partition boot record, and used a boot manager to select which partition
    to load grub from. Now I have to use a different disk for each test install if I don't want them to interfere with each others boot loader.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Gilberto F da Silva@2:250/1 to All on Fri Jul 17 01:19:24 2020
    On 2020-07-05, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
    On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 10:04:50 -0400, Gilberto F da Silva <gfs1989@gmx.net>
    wrote:

    The look of the grub configured by Mageia is the most pleasant of the
    distributions experienced by me, however, in a real machine it has the
    inconvenience of always writing in the MBR, erasing the configuration of
    some other boot loader.

    I greatly dislike the change too. Unfortunately grub-legacy is not supported
    any
    more, and will not work with newer kernels. The grub2 and grub2-efi packages
    do
    not support installing in the partition boot record like grub-legacy did.

    I used to have all of my testing installs on one disk, with grub-legacy
    installed
    on the partition boot record, and used a boot manager to select which
    partition
    to load grub from. Now I have to use a different disk for each test install
    if
    I don't want them to interfere with each others boot loader.

    I'm going to use Mageia's grub. It will be tiring to redo the old
    settings with each installation of Mageia.

    12CPU Dual Core Intel Core2 6400 (-MCP-) 12speed/min/max 1600/600/800 MHz 12Kernel 5.7.8-desktop-1.mga8 x86_64 12Up 6h 08m 12Mem 1547.0/3928.6 MiB (39.4%) 
    12Storage 376.23 GiB (15.3% used) 12Procs 212 12Client Unknown Client: emacs-26.3 12inxi 3.1.04 

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    Gilberto

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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Fri Jul 17 02:07:21 2020
    On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:19:24 +0000 (UTC), Gilberto F da Silva wrote:

    I'm going to use Mageia's grub. It will be tiring to redo the old
    settings with each installation of Mageia.

    Again, no information provided. If you are talking about grub changes,
    it may be possible to use grub configuration file or scripts
    to make your changes.

    If talking about system type changes, it should be possible to script
    great amount of those changes.

    I have
    $ ls -1 install_* | wc -l
    51
    install scripts and
    $ ls -1 *_changes | wc -l
    149
    change scripts.


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