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From: Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:20:21
Message-Id: CAMpmEiHav7u70BVqM8bh4qu7USGxRn6Gfh43ZL-cMPGbGOSjhA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working by Valmor de Almeida
1 On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Pavel Volkov <negaipub@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Sunday 24 November 2013 02:19:05 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
6 >> > No I have not touched any of the grub files. On my kernel boot line
7 >> above I
8 >> > do use dolvm. Will check on that though.
9 >>
10 >> Of course it won't boot then.
11 >> GRUB 2 does not use grub.conf anymore.
12 >> It reads /boot/grub/grub.cfg. This file is formed automatically by grub2-
13 >> mkconfig command, you have to edit the parameters in /etc/default/grub.
14 >>
15 >> Did edit the new /etc/default/grub:
16 >
17 > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="dolvm"
18 >
19 > Still no booting. Hangs on loading the initial ramdisk ...
20 > I can boot using systemrescuecd. Unfortunately I finalized the install of
21 > grub2 and no longer have grub legacy installed. I regret that. Also, before
22 > I finalized the grub2 install I tested the initramfs with grub legacy and
23 > it worked. There were two new issues I addressed in this recent portage
24 > sync. One was the use of a initramfs because my / and /usr are not in the
25 > same filesystem. /usr is actually under lvm control. I created a initramfs
26 > with genkernel (--lvm option) and as I stated earlier it worked with grub
27 > legacy. So the problem is grub2 configuration at this point.
28 >
29 > Thanks for any help including info on how to go back to grub legacy if
30 > necessary.
31 >
32 > Best,
33 >
34 > --
35 > Valmor
36 >
37
38
39 Does anyone know whether there is a place I can look for error messages?
40 still no luck on booting with grub2.
41
42 Thanks,
43
44 --
45 Valmor