From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20030609211930.15068.qmail@mail.dirac.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Dual Boot: OpenBSD <=> Plan9 From: Keith Nash Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 21:19:30 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c90171c2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I've never had any trouble with GRUB. The only situation when Linux cannot usefully boot from GRUB is if you have corrupted the kernel or the GRUB files on your Linux partition. (If you have trashed other important files, all bootloaders are at a disadvantage.) The traditional fix for a damaged kernel is a Linux boot floppy that provides the kernel. Since I have several partitions running different distributions, I tend not to make these floppies any more, and just keep a GRUB boot floppy. I would repair broken distribution A by booting distribution B, if necessary from the GRUB floppy, and then mounting A's disk. I find GRUB invaluable - the feature I like best (in Linux) is that GRUB is aware of filesystems (at least ext2/ext3), so it is not necessary to know the physical location of the kernel on disk, only its filename. You can unpack a filesystem from a tarball, and boot it from the GRUB command line (first changing only /etc/fstab if the tarball was packed from a different partition). Keith.