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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> It appears that grub2 is coming soon. Thread on -dev said a couple |
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> months or so till it hits the tree, keyworded and/or masked I'm sure. I |
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> guess it is about time to jump off the cliff and give this a try. I |
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> installed Kubuntu on a system for my brother and it uses grub2. I have |
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> had to edit the config and then run the update script. I have sort of |
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> installed and made a config change to grub2, even tho it was only once. |
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> Basically, I sort of seen the thing at least. o_O |
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> My first question is, how hard is this to change from old grub to |
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> grub2? I only run Gentoo here, no windoze at all and no other distro |
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> either. I figure that may make it easier. I must confess tho, I'm a |
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> hoarder of kernels. LOL I generally have several versions of them on |
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> here. Is there a way for it to only see say the last 3 versions or so? |
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> I only have three right now but I cleaned out all the non-init kernels a |
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> while back. Given time, I may have a dozen or so. I would rather not |
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> have that many lines on the grub screen when booting. |
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> Also, will it know what init thingy image to connect the kernels too? I |
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> name my kernels with the version and name the init thingy with a similar |
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> name. Looks someting like this: |
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> root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-3.* |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4740064 May 16 20:25 /boot/bzImage-3.3.5-2 |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4758496 May 23 13:09 /boot/bzImage-3.4.0-1 |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4758816 Jun 14 09:00 /boot/bzImage-3.4.2.r1-1 |
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> root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/initramfs-3.* |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3560934 May 12 05:03 /boot/initramfs-3.3.5-1.img |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3560423 May 23 13:10 /boot/initramfs-3.4.0.img |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3561170 Jun 14 09:05 /boot/initramfs-3.4.2.img |
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> root@fireball / # |
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> There are times when I may have more than one kernel but only one init |
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> thingy tho. So far, one init thingy will work with any kernel of that |
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> version. I have not tried mixing tho. |
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> Also, how much disk space does grub take up on /boot? Mine is on a |
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> separate partition and I hope it is large enough. |
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> Thoughts. Info. |
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> Thanks in advance. |
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Thanks for "announcing" this Dale. grub-2.00 is in ~arch as of last night. |
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Given your current naming scheme, grub2-mkconfig will not detect your |
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kernels. They must be named vmlinuz-version or kernel-version. For |
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example: |
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/boot/vmlinuz-3.4.3 |
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/boot/kernel-2.6.39-gentoo |
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Your initramfs files look good. |
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Space wise, grub needs a couple hundred sectors after your MBR to |
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embed itself. If you used the default fdisk setting when you |
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partitioned your drive, you should have 2047 free sectors that it can |
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use. |
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If you have your kernels named properly and some free sectors on your |
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hard drive, setting up grub:2 is a very easy process. See the wiki |
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page for more info. |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start |
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