Message-ID: <66c12e40@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 18 Aug 2024 09:12:01 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 28 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:57993 Marc Haber wrote: > "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote: >>On 8/14/24 9:31 AM, The Doctor wrote: >>> So far, I am liking it. >>> >>> I can use Debian to Boot Between Debian and FreeBSD. >>> >>> Can Debian grub look after other systems? >> >> GRUB can work multi-boots ... most any Linux will >> install GRUB and you can add on from there. GRUB >> is not Linux, not Debian, its own app. > > A big part of grub is building the configuration, which is done by > scripts that come from the respective distribution. And yes, there are > differences in those scripts. The Debian one messed up a dual-boot set-up on me after an upgrade, and there was no simple description of manual configuration in the Grub docs. I've since replaced Grub2 with the Extlinux bootloader everywhere (after determining that Grub "Legacy" doesn't work booting new Linux distros anymore), which doesn't expect you to rely on flaky scripts to make its equivalent of Grub Legacy's good old menu.lst. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#