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On 2019-01-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2019-01-18, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> As someone else mentioned you can mask grub-mkconfig. I didn't bother, |
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>> it isn't run automatically. |
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> I should have known that on Gentoo it wouldn't be. I ought to think |
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> about starting to switch to grub2. On one of my simpler installs, I |
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> may try out the chainloading from grub to grub2 scheme documented at |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Migration |
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I had some spare time while watching a Windows 10 machine while away a |
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few hours doing updates (WTF does it take so long? Is it rebuilding |
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everything from sources?). So, I decided to give the above migration |
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scheme a try on one of my "simple" machines, and it worked swimmingly |
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except the auto-generated grub.cfg file fell over. I was not |
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surprised. The kernel started to boot, but then locked up at the point |
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where the video mode switches. |
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Fortunately, the chainloading scheme allows you to reboot into a |
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working system via grub-0.97 and tweak things until grub-2 works. I |
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manually created a grub.cfg file, and it worked fine. Then I did a |
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final 'grub2-install', uninstalled grub:0, and all that's left is to |
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clean the grub:0 files out of /boot/grub. |
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I'm still amazed by the giant mess that grub2-mkconfig spits out. |
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It's 90X larger than my manually generated config file: |
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# grub2-mkconfig 2>/dev/null | wc |
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438 1661 17888 |
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# wc boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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10 17 200 boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! But they went to MARS |
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at around 1953!! |
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gmail.com |
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