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

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
<phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
> On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news
>> item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review.
>
> Great news! Thanks for working on this, and it basically works
> (chainloaded for now, see below) on my x86 system.
>
> Some general remarks:
>
> 1. When using chainloaded GRUB2, neither Linux kernel boot messages nor
> openrc boot messages would show up. Also, at shutdown openrc shutdown
> messages were also not visible. Everything is fine if I boot the kernel
> using GRUB legacy. This is inside VMWare Fusion.
>

Hmm... I don't really have a clue here. I will try to reproduce it in qemu.

> 2. At least /etc/default/grub refers to /boot/grub2, as opposed to
> /boot/grub from Gentoo docs.
>

Thanks for catching that; fixed in the tree.

>> 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.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml
>
> 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?

For the postinst message, I could link to the migration guide if
sys-boot/grub:0 is installed. If grub:0 is not installed, there should
be no need to "migrate".