grub (Pete's notes)
Grub is the GRand Unified Bootloader. When I turn on the laptop,
grub displays a menu that allows me to boot into one of several
"schemes". I've chosen to identify the following schemes:
- Docked at home
- laptop display
- Logitech mouse, no emulate 3button
- docking station Ethernet on eth0, DHCP
- 3COM PCMCIA modem, maybe with PPP, maybe with VPN
- DHCP to the ISDN router
When docked at home, the PCMCIA cardmgr process starts,
detects the PCMCIA Ethernet card, loads the driver, does a
"network start eth1", and shows a "failed" message during the
boot sequence. It *doesn't* automatically run dhcpcd on the
docking station Ethernet card. I do it manually in "home.sh".
- Docked at work
- NEC display
- Logitech mouse, no emulate 3button
- docking station Ethernet on eth0
- DHCP to the ISDN router
- maybe 3COM PCMCIA Ethernet, sometimes cabled up
- maybe 3COM PCMCIA modem, sometimes cabled up
- maybe wireless PCMCIA card
When docked at work, the PCMCIA cardmgr process starts, detects
the PCMCIA Ethernet card, loads the driver, does a "network
start eth1", and shows a "failed" message during the boot
sequence. It *doesn't* automatically run dhcpcd on the docking
station Ethernet card. I do it manually in "work.sh".
- On a UCAR network (wireless or Ethernet)
- laptop display
- laptop touchpad, emulate 3button
- PCMCIA Ethernet, no VPN
- or wireless, no VPN
- DHCP to SCD DHCP server or other UCAR DHCP server
- On a foreign network (wireless, Ethernet or hotel room)
- laptop display
- laptop touchpad, emulate 3button
- maybe PCMCIA modem/PPP with VPN
- maybe PCMCIA Ethernet with VPN
- maybe wireless with VPN
- maybe DHCP to foreign DHCP server
- standalone (no network)
- laptop display
- laptop touchpad, emulate 3button
- no DHCP, no VPN
To configure grub, edit the /etc/grub.conf file.
Pete Siemse
Last modified: Sun Jun 2 13:35:47 MDT 2002