I have an old hard disk drive (the ribbon one) that I see using usb has a boot partition but don't see anything else.
So, I thought to try to boot up the the disk (which is running legacy grub) over usb from grub2 to check it out.
But, google has failed me.
I have Ubuntu installed on a 32 GB SD card (in the Storage Expansion slot on an Acer Aspire One) with Grub2 installed in the same partition. I boot into legacy Grub on a USB drive and would like to boot by chainloading Grub2 from Grub (kernel/initrd or symlink booting would also be fine), but I haven't figured out how to do this from legacy Grub CLI.
GRUB Legacy support has been dropped. Read the archlinux.org front page ("GRUB legacy no longer supported 2012-07-20").GRUB Legacy counts "(hd0,0)" as the first partition of the first drive. So (hd0,5) is the equivalent of /dev/sda6.Wait... You can't boot from a LiveCD either?
I am trying to boot ubuntu as an alternative OS running from an external hard drive. My main boot loader on /dev/sda is grub legacy. I have Gentoo running on sda and sdb and Ubuntu on sdc.
So I figured I can simply configure a chainloader on grub-lagacy to boot either into Gentoo or Ubuntu. Gentoo works well enough, however Ubuntu does not work via this method.
Hi,
I'm trying to set up console IPMI access on a server running Ubuntu 12.10 which is using GRUB2, but the instructions I have are for GRUB, and I can't see how to port the required changes.
Hello people,
I built a new computer capable of UEFI. Just like I always did, I installed windows 7 64-bit first, hoping that Fedora will pick it and make a line in boot menu.
So I installed windows in UEFI mode. Then put Fedora 17 64-bit and also made sure that I start it in UEFI mode via bios boot shortcut.
Hi, I just finished installing Kubuntu 12.10 on a pc with windows7, using EasyBCD I was trying to add the boot entry to mbr.
For some reason Grub2 did not work and when I chose Linux in the OS selection screen on boot, I would end up on the Grub4DOS screen instead of the usual Grub screen where you select a distro.
I'd honestly just recommend installing legacy grub, or better yet LILO, the people who work on GRUB/A lot of gnu software seem to think it's a great idea to just add and add and add pointless and bloated features to things that don't need it, GRUB is a perfect example of this, and so is the coreutils, 750 lines of code is used for 'cat' whereas on an operating system such
I just switched from Fedora 16 to 18 (not an upgrade but a clean install). Previously in Fedora 16, I had no problems doing a Fedora 16 and Windows 7 dual boot in EFI mode. Grub Legacy (EFI version) worked perfectly. Now with Grub2 (EFI) there seems to be no working chainloader command.
I can still boot Windows if I go into the BIOS boot menu and select it.
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