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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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2. At least /etc/default/grub refers to /boot/grub2, as opposed to |
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/boot/grub from Gentoo docs. |
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> GRUB2 uses a different configuration format, and requires a manual |
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> migration before your system will actually use it. A guide [1] is |
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> available on the gentoo.org website. |
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> [...] |
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> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml |
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The grub postinst message links to |
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<http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start> instead - and that wiki |
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page has a link to <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml> . |
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IMHO it would be elegant for the news item to match the postinst |
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message: either make the grub2-migration.xml point to wiki as possibly |
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containing more information (and switch grub postint to point to |
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grub2-migration.xml), or make both link to the wiki. |
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Paweł |
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