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Grub2 on gentoo, seems a bit confusing. I guess |
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I've just read too much that is system dependant ( version of grub2?) |
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(and to think the purpose of Grub2 was/is standarization?) |
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So I simple want to be able to add multiple linux kernels |
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to boot from. Many are experimental hacks, so I keep |
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quite a few around..... eventually, there will be |
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a windows7 boot need on lappys and tablets too. |
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Some reading suggests to simply build the kernels, and |
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put them in /boot/.... with acceptable namees like: |
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"kernel-3.10.25-gentoo" and they will automactically |
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appear in the boot menu? No limit to the number of |
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images? |
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Some pages suggest manually editing the grub.cfg file, |
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but I've also read that this is overwritten by the scipts |
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and info found in /etc/grub.d. I running Grub 2.00_p5107-r2. |
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I like to keep multiple version of kernels, complete sources |
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etc and keep several if not many of the bootable kernels |
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in /boot/. |
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Ideas and suggstions on how a grub(legacy) guy should approach |
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this need, with grub2 are most welcome. Just so you know, I |
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envision in the next 12 months to have many different arm(64) |
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systems using grub2 also (linaro has grub2 working on arm and |
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arm64); so a clean, well thought out strategy of similar |
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approaches to grub2 on many differnt arch's is what I'm really |
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after.... |
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Also while we discussing grub 2, it boots blind (no feedback) |
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and takes too long to boot (estimated 5 minutes) : really slow |
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so what do I change there? No systemd on my systems..... |
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TIA, |
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James |
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