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Hi, |
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I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm |
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following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start |
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which seems easy enough. Basically just emerge it, install and go. |
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However... two different questions: |
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When I did this from a chroot, I just got the GRUB> prompt upon |
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rebooting... no menu or anything. I can manually type "linux |
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/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3" and then boot into my system. When I run |
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grub2-mkconfig from within the chroot, I don't get any "Found linux |
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image" lines. It does not create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but rather |
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grub.cfg.new. So I don't know if it's confused about where /boot is or |
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what. Is there a trick to installing/updating grub2 config from within |
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a chroot? |
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Second, when running grub2-mkconfig from within my working gentoo |
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system, it fails with "error: failed to get canonical path of |
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/dev/root." which is apparently because I don't use an initramfs. I |
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must manually run "ln -s /dev/sda3 /dev/boot" before it will work. Is |
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there any trick to avoid having to do that every time? For now I have |
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simply added that to my after-kernel-update script but I'm curious to |
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know if grub2 knows how to handle this on its own somehow. |
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Thanks, |
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Paul |
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