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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Hilco Wijbenga |
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<hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 15 May 2012 19:37, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm |
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>> following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start |
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>> which seems easy enough. Basically just emerge it, install and go. |
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>> However... two different questions: |
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>> When I did this from a chroot, I just got the GRUB> prompt upon |
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>> rebooting... no menu or anything. I can manually type "linux |
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>> /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3" and then boot into my system. When I run |
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>> grub2-mkconfig from within the chroot, I don't get any "Found linux |
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>> image" lines. It does not create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but rather |
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>> grub.cfg.new. So I don't know if it's confused about where /boot is or |
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>> what. Is there a trick to installing/updating grub2 config from within |
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>> a chroot? |
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> |
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> I don't really understand where the chroot comes into this but ... did |
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> you add the "-o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" part? I forgot that bit a few |
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> times and then couldn't figure out why my changes weren't taking |
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> effect. :-) |
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Hehe, yeah, I used that command. I'm installing it from chroot for the |
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first time because gentoo's bootloader was not yet present on the |
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machine (only Windows7). |
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