[gentoo-user] GRUB2 migration

On 2012-07-05, James wrote:

Has anyone seen/tried this guide?

http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml

The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2.

as evidence in the gentoo-dev thread. I curious if folks are going to
follow the docs, or are we each going to wing out way to grub2 with
the legacy installs of gentoo?

I plan on dragging my feet for as long as possible, and won't switch
until I'm forced to. And by "forced to" I mean that grub-legacy
simply won't work anymore -- regardless of whether there's a Gentoo
package for it or not.

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Hello,


On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2012-07-05, James wrote:

Has anyone seen/tried this guide?

http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml

The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2.

as evidence in the gentoo-dev thread. I curious if folks are going to
follow the docs, or are we each going to wing out way to grub2 with
the legacy installs of gentoo?

I plan on dragging my feet for as long as possible, and won't switch
until I'm forced to. And by "forced to" I mean that grub-legacy
simply won't work anymore -- regardless of whether there's a Gentoo
package for it or not.

a few weeks ago I was one of those people about to stay away from GRUB 2
as long as possible. What I didn't know is that part of what I knew and
disliked about GRUB 2 was (only) specific to Debian, the fact that you
no longer edit /etc/grub/grub.cfg directly: you edit parts that are
combined for you.

Short version: if it's fear of the unknown with you too, I recommend
getting to know that beast a little better. You'll either end up with
many good arguments against it or find out that it's better than you
expected in the beginning. My guess is the latter. Anyway. Give it a try.

Best,



Sebastian

Sebastian Pipping wrote:

Hello,


On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2012-07-05, James wrote:

Has anyone seen/tried this guide?

http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml

The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2.

as evidence in the gentoo-dev thread. I curious if folks are going to
follow the docs, or are we each going to wing out way to grub2 with
the legacy installs of gentoo?

I plan on dragging my feet for as long as possible, and won't switch
until I'm forced to. And by "forced to" I mean that grub-legacy
simply won't work anymore -- regardless of whether there's a Gentoo
package for it or not.

a few weeks ago I was one of those people about to stay away from GRUB 2
as long as possible. What I didn't know is that part of what I knew and
disliked about GRUB 2 was (only) specific to Debian, the fact that you
no longer edit /etc/grub/grub.cfg directly: you edit parts that are
combined for you.

Short version: if it's fear of the unknown with you too, I recommend
getting to know that beast a little better. You'll either end up with
many good arguments against it or find out that it's better than you
expected in the beginning. My guess is the latter. Anyway. Give it a try.

Best,



Sebastian

I been reading up on this beast too. The commands and such appear to be
specific to Gentoo OR at least different from Kubuntu. My money is on
Kubuntu being weird. On my bro's Kubuntu I run grub-update but on
Gentoo it is grub-mkconfig or something to that effect. I noticed that
with Gentoo there is a option on the tail end too. With Kubuntu there
is no options or at least none needed anyway.

I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to
upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other than
chroot'in in and all. I have a lot of partitions and they are on LVM
right now. That chroot'in is a pain in the butt. Oh, LOTS of stuff in
/usr too so it has to be mounted for you to fix grub. < sighs >

Dale

:-) :-)

I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

On Friday 06 July 2012 00:20:15 Dale wrote:

Sebastian Pipping wrote:

->8

> Short version: if it's fear of the unknown with you too, I
> recommend getting to know that beast a little better. You'll
> either end up with many good arguments against it or find out that
> it's better than you expected in the beginning. My guess is the
> latter. Anyway. Give it a try.

Good advice. I don't intend to go the GRUB2 way though until I have to,
simply because GRUB ain't broke so I don't need to fix it.

->8

I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to
upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other
than chroot'in in and all. I have a lot of partitions and they are
on LVM right now. That chroot'in is a pain in the butt. Oh, LOTS
of stuff in /usr too so it has to be mounted for you to fix grub.

I have what seems to be an unusual solution of that problem. Each of my
boxes has a small, bootable rescue system in its own partition, and of
course its own entry in grub.conf. Its fstab defines all the main-system
partitions so I only have to mount them. Chrooting is as painless as it
can be.

Recently, since I've banished ~amd64 except in a few cases, I've only
used any of the rescue systems for backing up its main system to a USB
drive.

Rgds
Peter

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dale wrote:

Peter Humphrey wrote:

I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to
upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other
than chroot'in in and all. I have a lot of partitions and they are
on LVM right now. That chroot'in is a pain in the butt. Oh, LOTS
of stuff in /usr too so it has to be mounted for you to fix grub.

I have what seems to be an unusual solution of that problem. Each of my
boxes has a small, bootable rescue system in its own partition, and of
course its own entry in grub.conf. Its fstab defines all the main-system
partitions so I only have to mount them. Chrooting is as painless as it
can be.

Recently, since I've banished ~amd64 except in a few cases, I've only
used any of the rescue systems for backing up its main system to a USB
drive.

But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then
what? You can't select to boot anything including the rescue system.

I want to be able to fix whatever happens. Grub has been good to me so
far but I have had a time when after the BIOS was done, I got nothing,
nothing at all. That would be something I would want to know how to fix
since I can't even boot to get help or search google. If it isn't
between my ears, I'm toast. Right now, there is very little grub2
between my ears. Sometimes there is very little at all between my
ears. lol

Dale

:-) :-)

I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

I like to keep a copy of "Super Grub[2] Disk" around:

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

Never heard of "rescatux" until now, but that looks interesting.