On 09/15/2012 12:28 AM, Dale wrote: > Put your kernel and such on /boot and run update-grub if I recall > correctly. I installed Kubuntu for my brother and it has grub2 which > has some magic sprinkled on it. I'm not sure how to tell it where to > point for the root partition tho. That may require a thread here if > google doesn't help. I might add, you may get better Ubuntu answers > here than from the Ubuntu folks. I'll forgive you if everyone else > will. ROFL Dale :-) :-) grub2 is a completely rewritten animal, so it is *different*
grub2-install /dev/sd?? is the incantation to put grub2 onto the selected boot partition. Then <editor> /etc/default/grub grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg is the incantation for making the basic configuration. If you have multiple installations on disk, emerge "os-prober" to bring in the detection of "foreign" operating systems. This creates the grub.cfg file, which prominently features a "DO NOT EDIT" warning at the top of the file; rank beginners are advised to edit /etc/defaut/grub if that can make the changes you want, but more advanced users can edit the grub.cfg to achieve desired results. For example, my grub.cfg has the default entry for my preferred OS to boot, and then has entries that bing in other configuration files for various other situations. I've got two Gentoo collections, the Fedora collection and the Windows7 config. the grub2 "info" pages are complete but a little dense and not as well organized as they might be. Good Luck. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury
