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Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

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Le 19/07/2017 à 22:20, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
> On 07/19/2017 11:04 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit :
>>> Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian 
>>> can be imposable,
>>
>> Imposable ? What would impose it ?
> 
> Debian grub-legacy setup is no longer supported, yet it can still be 
> install so you can get a readable menu when you upgrade the kernel.

That sounds contradictory with "imposable". Did you mean "impossible" ?

>> One question : why use GRUB legacy ?
> 
> I multi-boot 20 installed .deb systems on the computer is the reason why.

So what ? Can't GRUB 2 handle 20 different systems ?

>> One suggestion : upgrade.
> 
> Not an option, I would be screwing with a grub config file that's not 
> designed to be readable by man

Even though, grub.cfg is perfectly readable by man when you're used to 
it. I am a man and I can read it.

> and with 20 systems just updating grub-pc 
> is unnecessary time consuming.  If I was running one or two systems 
> grub-pc would be fine but even my laptops have 5 or more systems installed.

You don't have to use the auto-generated grub.cfg. You can write and 
maintain your own one manually.

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Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 11:40 +0200
  Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-19 20:10 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-19 21:50 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-20 09:00 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:40 +0200
          Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2017-07-20 23:40 +0200
            Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-07-21 10:20 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-19 22:30 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 07:30 +0200
  Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-19 20:40 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-20 23:50 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-21 04:20 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-07-21 10:40 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 11:00 +0200
    Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 07:20 +0200
      Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-21 08:40 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 13:00 +0200
        Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 11:10 +0200
          Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-22 15:00 +0200
            Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-07-22 19:40 +0200

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