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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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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |