Re: Boot Order

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 02/24/2018 06:49 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:18:13 -0600
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> > On 02/24/2018 01:59 PM, Dan Norton wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > In my case, there are multiple debian installations and the
> > > installer positions the last installation at the top of the *grub*
> > > menu. This makes sense.
> >
> > Not always. I'm continually doing installs, tweaking them in one way
> > or another. The last install is the one most likely to "crash and
> > burn". I solve the problem by having grub installed ONLY on first
> > partition of my ONLY hard disk. I'd love to see an os-prober which
> > created menu entries in partition number order.
>
> With your many installs, have you needed to edit the bios menu so that
> you could boot something mountable? IOW is debian first in the boot
> order?
>   

I have older machines. I only encounter a so-called legacy bios.
E.G. I type this on a Lenovo T510.

IOW I never deal with a "UEFI" bios, only a "Legacy" bios.

But independent of that, Debian annoyingly presumes that most recent 
install is Nirvana.

*NOT* true.


I.E. During a "Cold Boot" it prompts me to press the "Blue Thinkvantage" 
button to bring up a choice of boot devices.
My Lenovo desktop asks me to press "Enter/Return" at a similar point in 
the boot sequence.

I was explicitly referring to how Grub2 handles searching for boot-able 
OS since Squeeze.