On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Barry Schwartz <chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> skribis: >> And tonight's install seems to make this more important that I can remember: >> >> * *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install >> * the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, >> * stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but >> * later stages will be the new version, which could >> * cause problems such as an unbootable system. >> * This means you must use either grub-install or perform >> * root/setup manually! For more help, see the handbook: >> * >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=10#grub-install-auto >> >> The link implies I just run >> >> grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda > > I think that's right, assuming /dev/sda is the boot drive (not > necessarily the same as the one on which your /boot directory > exists!). > > If you haven't made sure that the stages matched the rest of grub in > the past, I'd suggest being very careful in setting it up, but do it, > and then perhaps not upgrading grub again unless there is a very good > reason. The stable grub series is about the last thing for which > upgrading makes a difference, I would think. > > I did that for a few years, but now instead I keep DONT_MOUNT_BOOT=1 > in my make.conf so that grub doesn't actually affect my boot process > unless and until I want it to.
I ran the command and got no complaints. I rebooted both Linux and windows successfully so I guess everything is OK. I agree that it's not a package that is likely to make much of a difference in the performance of my machine, once it's booted, and if it boots then why upgrade. I'm going to throw in a package mask unless I here a really good reason not to. Thanks for the response. Cheers, Mark
