Good Morning Anthony, I ended up managing, it had been such a long time since I used grub1 and forgot what was in it. Not to mention this was the first time that I had done such a thing as well.
I had a few issues which i managed to iron out and im running the current hardened kernel successfully. Apologies for any noise Regards, Jonathan > On 06/08/14 15:22, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >> Good evening everyone, >> >> I am trying to harden a vps further by setting up PAX grsec and SEL. >> Currently the vps is using the hosts kernel. My provider has >> documentation >> on how to do this but not on how to do it on gentoo. I have been told i >> need the grub legacy format menu.lst. Is there a way I can just generate >> my own grub legacy menu.lst or do I need to install grub legacy in its >> entirety and use it instead of grub 2? If anyone has a link to a >> tutorial >> that would be greatly appreciated as documentation seems non existent. >> >> Regards >> > > Writing your own menu.lst is easy; just do it manually. Unliked grub2, > grub1 (for want of a better name) does not "scan" your system and try to > write a menu.lst the way grub2 writes a grub.cfg. So don't install > grub1 (and thus overwrite grub2's boot sector code) in the hopes that > you'll get some magic script to write your menu.lst for you. > > I'm not sure why you are finding it hard to find resources. I really > can't help you more because I don't know your setup. Obviously if you > are booting some kernel in your virtual machine using grub1 you already > have a menu.lst. Can you use it as a model? > > > > -- > Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. > Chair of Information Technology > D'Youville College > Buffalo, NY 14201 > (716) 829-8197 > >
