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On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." |
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> <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>>> GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news |
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>>> item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. |
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>> Great news! Thanks for working on this, and it basically works |
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>> (chainloaded for now, see below) on my x86 system. |
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>> Some general remarks: |
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>> 1. When using chainloaded GRUB2, neither Linux kernel boot messages nor |
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>> openrc boot messages would show up. Also, at shutdown openrc shutdown |
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>> messages were also not visible. Everything is fine if I boot the kernel |
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>> using GRUB legacy. This is inside VMWare Fusion. |
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> Hmm... I don't really have a clue here. I will try to reproduce it in qemu. |
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I wasn't able to reproduce this in qemu. It is possible that GRUB's |
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graphical terminal driver has some issues with VMWare. |
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However, have a Gentoo box at work that runs GRUB2 on VMWare ESX, and |
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I don't recall having any display issues on the console. But I'm also |
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not chainloading it there. |
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