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On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> |
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> > Any ideas anyone? |
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> Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what |
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> your old menu.lst did. |
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Well, what a gent! I didn't mean to imply that someone should write it for me, |
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but I'm deeply grateful anyway. I'll give it a try in a minute. |
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Later: works like a charm! I tried a couple of kernels and they just booted. |
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Maybe it'll become clear over time how to arrange the input to grub2-mkconfig |
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to achieve a similar result. Meanwhile I've removed the X bit from it. |
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Some time ago I found a guide to creating menu.cfg manually, but when I tried |
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booting via it grub just stopped, as if waiting for something from me. I |
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deduced that I needed some other stuff called in, besides all the kernel |
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specifiers, but not knowing what, I just left it pro tem. |
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Looks like your suggestions "insmod all_video" and "terminal_output gfxterm" |
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do the trick. Now all I have to do is (create and?) specify a character set |
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that (a) can display all the required characters and (b) is big enough to |
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read. Something like the size of the character set in legacy grub would do |
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nicely. |
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Anyway, that can be an exercise for me this wet, windy weekend; then perhaps |
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I'll feel confident enough to unmerge grub:0. Many thanks for your hard work, |
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Mike. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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