On 5/3/2016 5:11 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 5/2/2016 2:15 PM, Piyavkin wrote:On 02.05.2016 20:50, Brian wrote: [snip]The OP probably has it up and running by now.I hop so (about the OP). There is no news from him. I'm worrying (for him and for his hdd).Actually I haven't. Life has a tendency to intrude. Even as a retiree one cannot attend to a hobby 24/7<chuckle>. Seriously though, the delay itself may prove useful. This discussion is giving me some insight into another project I've been working on.
I've just re-read the complete thread.I found some links that were mentioned when persuing a similar question.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Multi_002dboot-manual-config This may be still be relavant although it refers to GRUB 1.98 http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/p20/GRUB2%20Bash%20Commands.html
I hope the result will be a document aimed at the beginner but not the picture book style that seems prevalent at that level. Much Linux documentation is written by experts for experts. As to my hdd, I bought a used laptop explicitly for my Linux experiments ;)