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Maybe I have not been clear.
I dont get the Grub menu at startup. Instead, I am getting some terminal screen saying GRUB. There is a help menu (list of all the commands) when you hit TAB.
If one installs Grub without attaching to an operating system one gets exactly the same thing, ---> a Grub prompt.
The up side of it is that in Grub prompt one can boot any system up "manually" (50+ systems, never fails once)
The Grub prompt will be triggered if Grub can't load /grub/menu.lst or has problems with it.
At Grub prompt
configfile (hdi,j)/grub/menu.lst --- can load Grub in ith disk, jth partition
geometry (hdi) ---- list all the partitions in ith disk
help --- lists all the commands usable at Grub prompt
All of my 50+ OSs can be loaded by the same 3 generic statements at Grub prompt with (using ith disk jth partition as an example)
root (hdi,j)
chainloader +1
boot
You don't get anything more powerful yet simpler than that. Just make sure in the above statements a boot loader is residing inside the (hdi,j) partition.
I am still searching for a operating system in a PC that cannot be booted in Grub prompt and would appreciate any offer (none found in DOS,Windows, xp, Linux, BSD and Solaris).
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