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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:44:17
Message-Id: 200905311943.56424.dirk.heinrichs@online.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1 by "John P. Burkett"
1 Am Samstag, 30. Mai 2009 20:59:00 schrieb John P. Burkett:
2 > On a x86 machine I did "emerge -D -uav world" and got a response that
3 > read in part as follows:
4 > * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9:
5
6 There's no need whatsoever to update grub once it's in your MBR. There's even
7 no need to keep the package on your machine, you can just uninstall it.
8
9 > * To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot,
10 > * just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable.
11
12 There's a bug open in bugzilla to fix this silly behaviour of the grub ebuild:
13 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223311
14
15 Bye...
16
17 Dirk

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>