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On 2019-01-18, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 1/17/19 2:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> Apparently they're going to try to pry grub-0.97 from my cold dead |
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>> fingers... |
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>> Is there any documentation on how to do a basic minimal grub:2 |
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>> install? |
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>> I really don't want any of the auto-magical, devs know better than I |
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>> do what I want, os-probing, hide all the details from the stupid user, |
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>> config file generator stuff installed. I just want the bare minimum |
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>> required to boot using a hand-edited grub.conf file. |
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>> There doesn't seem to be a USE flag... |
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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 often need to install grub2 in a partition instead of the MBR, and |
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these are good references. |
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https://github.com/alberthdev/alberthdev-misc/wiki/Installing-GRUB2-to-a-Partition |
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Install_to_partition_or_partitionless_disk |
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The Arch wiki also has some good tips on manually creating a grub2 |
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config file: |
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Custom_grub.cfg |
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[If you can't find what you're looking for on the Gentoo web site, the |
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Arch linux site is an excellent resource. I've learned to ignore |
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Google hits that point to Ubuntu forums...] |
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