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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:47:12
Message-Id: 55A80A2F.3010501@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update by James
1 On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote:
2 > Hello::
3 >
4 > Background::
5 > I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many).
6 >
7 > Current::
8 > Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to
9 > grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable.....
10 >
11 >
12 > So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting.
13 > No interamfs just a big partition with everything but /boot and /usr/local.
14 >
15 > /dev/sda3 746G 96G 612G 14% /
16 > devtmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
17 > tmpfs 3.2G 1020K 3.2G 1% /run
18 > shm 16G 12K 16G 1% /dev/shm
19 > cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
20 > /dev/sda1 194M 45M 139M 25% /boot
21 > /dev/sda4 962G 121G 792G 14% /usr/local
22 >
23 >
24 > So the upgrade will be trivial or are there caveats. I do not have
25 > a good record with grub-2 .....
26
27 The don't use it, grub:0 still works just fine :-)
28
29 I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure out
30 how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot loader which
31 bootstraps a boot loader which loads code that loads a kernel. So back
32 to grub:0 for me
33
34
35 --
36 Alan McKinnon
37 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>