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On Wednesday 20 May 2015 06:26:08 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. Does |
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> > that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB? |
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> Well, you could always use syslinux or something else. However, GRUB |
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> is probably your best bet. |
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> You should really consider moving to GRUB2 though. |
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Last time I looked, it couldn't handle all the kernels and options I have. |
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This is my grub.conf: |
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root (hd0,0) |
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timeout 10 |
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default 0 |
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fallback 3 |
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color white/blue black/light-gray |
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splashimage /grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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title=Gentoo Linux 3.18.12 |
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kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-3.18.12-gentoo root=/dev/md5 net.ifnames=0 irqpoll |
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title=Gentoo Linux 3.18.12, no X |
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kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-3.18.12-gentoo root=/dev/md5 softlevel=nox net.ifnames=0 irqpoll |
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title=Gentoo Linux 3.18.12, no network |
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kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-3.18.12-gentoo root=/dev/md5 softlevel=nonet net.ifnames=0 irqpoll |
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title=Rescue System 3.18.11 |
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kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-3.18.11-gentoo-rescue root=/dev/sda8 net.ifnames=0 irqpoll |
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title=Rescue System 3.18.12 |
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kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-3.18.12-gentoo-rescue root=/dev/sda8 net.ifnames=0 irqpoll |
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Can grub-2 manage that for me? |
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> I don't know about legacy GRUB, but GRUB2 can handle your boot partition |
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> being on btrfs. I still left space on my drives for a boot partition anyway, |
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> since it will be needed when I move to EFI. |
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I was planning to keep /boot out of the btrfs setup, at least to start with. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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