Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

[Mike Gilbert]

On 09/21/2013 02:18 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
>> The grub postinst message links to
>> <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start> instead - and that wiki
>> page has a link to <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml> .
>>
>> IMHO it would be elegant for the news item to match the postinst
>> message: either make the grub2-migration.xml point to wiki as possibly
>> containing more information (and switch grub postint to point to
>> grub2-migration.xml), or make both link to the wiki.
>>
>
> How about linking to both pages from the news item?
>

Here's a second draft including that change.

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Title: GRUB2 stabilization
Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2013-09-22
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-Installed: <sys-boot/grub-1

A newer version of GRUB (sys-boot/grub) is now stable. There are now
two available slots:

sys-boot/grub:0 - Known as "GRUB Legacy"
sys-boot/grub:2 - Known as "GRUB2"

GRUB2 uses a different configuration format, and requires a manual
migration before your system will actually use it. A guide [1] is
available on the gentoo.org website, and the Gentoo wiki [2][3] has
additional information.

If you would prefer not to migrate at this time, you do not need to
take any action: GRUB Legacy will remain functional in /boot. To
prevent any associated files (documentation) from being removed, add
sys-boot/grub:0 to your world file. For example:

emerge --noreplace sys-boot/grub:0

References:

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2