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From: Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:04:22
Message-Id: 55A80DE0.5060100@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update by James
1 On 16-Jul-15 21:34, James wrote:
2
3 > Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to
4 > grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable.....
5 >
6 > So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting.
7 > No interamfs just a big partition with everything but /boot and /usr/local.
8 >
9 > /dev/sda3 746G 96G 612G 14% /
10 > devtmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
11 > tmpfs 3.2G 1020K 3.2G 1% /run
12 > shm 16G 12K 16G 1% /dev/shm
13 > cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
14 > /dev/sda1 194M 45M 139M 25% /boot
15 > /dev/sda4 962G 121G 792G 14% /usr/local
16 >
17 > So the upgrade will be trivial or are there caveats. I do not have
18 > a good record with grub-2 .....
19
20 I have similar setup as you and upgraded grub without any
21 problem. If beta2-r3 worked for you, beta2-r7 will as well.
22 If you did not disable /boot automount, there are no special
23 steps needed. Portage will mount /boot, update grub, and
24 dismound afterwards...
25
26 Jarry
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[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>