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On 10/04/2016 12:45 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> I'd love to move to grub2 for all of my machines, but it does simply not |
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> work for one of my servers. I can install grub2 and it tells me that |
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> installation and anything else went fine, but when I try to boot with it, it |
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> stops and reports me that it found some conflicting area in my bios why it |
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> cannot work (sorry, I tell this from my memory, I've tried it quite some |
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> time ago). Mr. Google says that this may happen for some hardware, but has |
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> no solution to it. |
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Was this ever reported in bugs.gentoo.org? |
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> So, what are my options (or other people's options with such incompatible |
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> hardware) without grub 1? Lilo? |
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Grub could also be an option depending on what version you tried. If |
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you only tested against the stable versions, a second check would be in |
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order as 2.02_beta3-r1 went stable recently. |
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-Nick |
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> - Jörg |
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> William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> All, |
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>> I want to look into removing grub:0 from the tree; here are my thoughts |
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>> on why it should go. |
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>> - the handbook doesn't document grub:0; we officially only support |
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>> grub:2. |
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>> - There are multiple bugs open against grub:0 (15 at my last count). A |
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>> number of these as I understand it are because of custom patches we |
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>> apply. |
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>> - grub:0 can't boot a nomultilib system, so we have to maintain a |
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>> separate package (grub-static) specifically for that setup. |
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>> - Removing grub:0 from the tree doesn't stop you from using it. If people |
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>> really want it I will place it in the graveyard overlay. |
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>> - We have custom patches for grub:0, which will never go upstream. |
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>> - grub:0 is dead upstream. They have not done any work on it in years. |
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>> - The only real problem with grub:2 has to do with pperception. Yes, |
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>> their documentation has a strong preference toward using their |
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>> configuration script (grub-mkconfig) to generate your grub.cfg, but |
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>> this is not required. |
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>> So, I want to make a plan to lastrite grub:0 and grub-static. |
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>> I'm thinking, in about a week, p.mask grub:0 along with grub-static and |
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>> send out a lastrites msg with a 30 day removal notice. |
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>> If there any technical objections to this, let me know what they are. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> William |
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