booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Fri Mar 23 22:52:29 UTC 2012


On 03/23/2012 03:42 PM, jackson byers wrote:
> I think you  are wrong here;
>   the F16 is first to use grub2, yes.
> But the f16 doc says to use your*existing*  GRUB boot loader,
> which for your F14 is your legacy GRUB.

If you upgrade to F16, you'll have grub2 installed, but you'll still be 
using legacy grub.  It's not hard to change over, but it's something 
you'll have to do for yourself.  In fact, the upgrade will even modify 
/boot/grub/grub.conf correctly just as it did before grub2 came out.


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