Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Multibooting Option: GRUB BootLoader

GRUB stands for GRand Unified Boot loader.


GRUB Boot loader is an important part for multi booting PC that eans when more than one option is available for booting a PC. Now-a-days, most of the computer users keep at least two operating system for their PC. It helps a lot to them. When any one try to black mail the user, user don't be worry about that as there is an another option for him to complete his task at that moment.
i.e I use Ubuntu for using Internet and for developing windows based software I use Xp. If both the option can not be displayed at the start up of the pc, we have to need two PC for two different requirements.
GRUB Boot-loader is one of this solution provider. we can use the GRUB boot-loader according to our needs. But we have to be more cautions when we will try to work with GRUB Boot loader.GRUB is an excellent and highly flexible boot loader. It's designed to boot a wide range of operating systems from a wide range of file systems.GRUB is now pretty much the standard used in the very many variations of Linux available today.
Before doing any work on GRUB, we need to back up a copy of that file which will help us for any problem in future. Recently, I have tried to change some option in my GRUB file. And then I accessed many website for getting some help. And some website helps me a lot. These are as
Website 1
Website 2
Website 3

Remember, before doing any work with GRUB, you must know the version of your GRUB and then follow according to that. And then take a backup of that GRUB file before any modification. Lets try and enjoy..

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