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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:07:01
Message-Id: 4FE7F195.4090708@gmail.com
1 Howdy,
2
3 It appears that grub2 is coming soon. Thread on -dev said a couple
4 months or so till it hits the tree, keyworded and/or masked I'm sure. I
5 guess it is about time to jump off the cliff and give this a try. I
6 installed Kubuntu on a system for my brother and it uses grub2. I have
7 had to edit the config and then run the update script. I have sort of
8 installed and made a config change to grub2, even tho it was only once.
9 Basically, I sort of seen the thing at least. o_O
10
11 My first question is, how hard is this to change from old grub to
12 grub2? I only run Gentoo here, no windoze at all and no other distro
13 either. I figure that may make it easier. I must confess tho, I'm a
14 hoarder of kernels. LOL I generally have several versions of them on
15 here. Is there a way for it to only see say the last 3 versions or so?
16 I only have three right now but I cleaned out all the non-init kernels a
17 while back. Given time, I may have a dozen or so. I would rather not
18 have that many lines on the grub screen when booting.
19
20 Also, will it know what init thingy image to connect the kernels too? I
21 name my kernels with the version and name the init thingy with a similar
22 name. Looks someting like this:
23
24 root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-3.*
25 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4740064 May 16 20:25 /boot/bzImage-3.3.5-2
26 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4758496 May 23 13:09 /boot/bzImage-3.4.0-1
27 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4758816 Jun 14 09:00 /boot/bzImage-3.4.2.r1-1
28 root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/initramfs-3.*
29 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3560934 May 12 05:03 /boot/initramfs-3.3.5-1.img
30 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3560423 May 23 13:10 /boot/initramfs-3.4.0.img
31 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3561170 Jun 14 09:05 /boot/initramfs-3.4.2.img
32 root@fireball / #
33
34 There are times when I may have more than one kernel but only one init
35 thingy tho. So far, one init thingy will work with any kernel of that
36 version. I have not tried mixing tho.
37
38 Also, how much disk space does grub take up on /boot? Mine is on a
39 separate partition and I hope it is large enough.
40
41 Thoughts. Info.
42
43 Thanks in advance.
44
45 Dale
46
47 :-) :-)
48
49 --
50 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
51
52 Miss the compile output? Hint:
53 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

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Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller. "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller. Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller. walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller. Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller. Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller. Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller. Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>