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On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 20:36 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> It appears that grub2 is coming soon. |
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> >> grub 2.00 has been released! |
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> >> |
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> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ |
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> > I wasn't expecting it to be that soon. I guess it will hit the tree |
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> > pretty soon then. Well, we all need to think about the goods and bads |
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> > of upgrading or staying with the old. I'm thinking about using the new |
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> > one pretty soon. Heck, they ticked me off pretty bad with the /usr and |
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> > init thingy so I may as well jump off the cliff I was pushed up to. :/ |
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> > 1/4 of the way down, all is good so far. 1/2 way down and all is good |
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> > so far. 3/4 way down and all is good so far. I'm worried about that |
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> > sudden stop now. O_O |
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> > |
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> > Dale |
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> *shuffles his feet* |
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> I've started using genkernel. Once I discovered I can specify my own |
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> kernel configuration, it got a lot less ugly to me. The initramfs |
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> thing hasn't gotten in my way...yet. And it helped me recover an |
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> install process once so far, so I can't complain _to_ much. My only |
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> complaint thus far is its terrible error reporting. And since I'm |
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> using an initramfs, I went ahead and dropped my / on top of a raid5 |
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> volume. |
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> But even before I started using genkernel...grub2 sounded like a good |
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> thing. One of the previous threads in here described how you assemble |
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> its configuration, and it made a *lot* of sense, from an architectural |
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> standpoint. |
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genkernel error reporting can be improved no end by editing the script |
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(/usr/share/genkernel/defaults/linuxrc) and sprinkling with echo, |
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good_msg and bad_msg statements ... |
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Unfortunately it cant log to a file (or at least I have not tried) so |
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sleep statements may help so you read the messages. |
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Copy the above script to a new name and run genkernel as "genkernel |
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--color --linuxrc=/usr/share/genkernel/defaults/linuxrc.uswsusp |
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--initramfs-overlay=/var/lib/genkernel/overlay --lvm --menuconfig all " |
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The overlay is a some extra stuff I wanted in the initramfs for suspend |
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to disk. |
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BillK |
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