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I am using grub2 also, but on another distro, with multiple |
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kernels/partitions. I don't have a lot of firsthand knowledge, because not |
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having a lot of patience, I usu just drop to the grub cli. |
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However, IIRC there is a grub2 command called update-grub that scans all |
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your boot sectors on all your devices. At least that's the way its _sposed_ |
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to work - ymmv. |
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:-/ |
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On Jan 24, 2014 12:32 PM, "James" <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Grub2 on gentoo, seems a bit confusing. I guess |
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> I've just read too much that is system dependant ( version of grub2?) |
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> (and to think the purpose of Grub2 was/is standarization?) |
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> So I simple want to be able to add multiple linux kernels |
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> to boot from. Many are experimental hacks, so I keep |
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> quite a few around..... eventually, there will be |
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> a windows7 boot need on lappys and tablets too. |
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> Some reading suggests to simply build the kernels, and |
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> put them in /boot/.... with acceptable namees like: |
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> "kernel-3.10.25-gentoo" and they will automactically |
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> appear in the boot menu? No limit to the number of |
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> images? |
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> Some pages suggest manually editing the grub.cfg file, |
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> but I've also read that this is overwritten by the scipts |
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> and info found in /etc/grub.d. I running Grub 2.00_p5107-r2. |
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> I like to keep multiple version of kernels, complete sources |
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> etc and keep several if not many of the bootable kernels |
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> in /boot/. |
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> Ideas and suggstions on how a grub(legacy) guy should approach |
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> this need, with grub2 are most welcome. Just so you know, I |
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> envision in the next 12 months to have many different arm(64) |
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> systems using grub2 also (linaro has grub2 working on arm and |
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> arm64); so a clean, well thought out strategy of similar |
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> approaches to grub2 on many differnt arch's is what I'm really |
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> after.... |
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> Also while we discussing grub 2, it boots blind (no feedback) |
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> and takes too long to boot (estimated 5 minutes) : really slow |
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> so what do I change there? No systemd on my systems..... |
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> TIA, |
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> James |
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