| 1 |
On Friday 06 July 2012 00:20:15 Dale wrote: |
| 2 |
> Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
| 3 |
---->8 |
| 4 |
> > Short version: if it's fear of the unknown with you too, I |
| 5 |
> > recommend getting to know that beast a little better. You'll |
| 6 |
> > either end up with many good arguments against it or find out that |
| 7 |
> > it's better than you expected in the beginning. My guess is the |
| 8 |
> > latter. Anyway. Give it a try. |
| 9 |
|
| 10 |
Good advice. I don't intend to go the GRUB2 way though until I have to, |
| 11 |
simply because GRUB ain't broke so I don't need to fix it. |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
---->8 |
| 14 |
> I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to |
| 15 |
> upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other |
| 16 |
> than chroot'in in and all. I have a lot of partitions and they are |
| 17 |
> on LVM right now. That chroot'in is a pain in the butt. Oh, LOTS |
| 18 |
> of stuff in /usr too so it has to be mounted for you to fix grub. |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
I have what seems to be an unusual solution of that problem. Each of my |
| 21 |
boxes has a small, bootable rescue system in its own partition, and of |
| 22 |
course its own entry in grub.conf. Its fstab defines all the main-system |
| 23 |
partitions so I only have to mount them. Chrooting is as painless as it |
| 24 |
can be. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
Recently, since I've banished ~amd64 except in a few cases, I've only |
| 27 |
used any of the rescue systems for backing up its main system to a USB |
| 28 |
drive. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
-- |
| 31 |
Rgds |
| 32 |
Peter |
Archives