Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I been reading up on this beast too. The commands and such appear to be >> specific to Gentoo OR at least different from Kubuntu. My money is on >> Kubuntu being weird. On my bro's Kubuntu I run grub-update but on >> Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:17:53 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the >>> rescue system and chroot to it, rerun grub and reboot. Doesn't sound >>> like much of a problem to me. >> It would be for me. I have my system p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:15 -0500, Dale wrote: > I been reading up on this beast too. The commands and such appear to be > specific to Gentoo OR at least different from Kubuntu. My money is on > Kubuntu being weird. On my bro's Kubuntu I run grub-update but on > Gentoo it is grub-mkconfig or s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:17:53 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the > > rescue system and chroot to it, rerun grub and reboot. Doesn't sound > > like much of a problem to me. > > It would be for me. I have my system partitioned out pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Terry
There are.many good docs on the web about it. Yes much of this is just resistance to change. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello, On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-07-05, James wrote: >> Has anyone seen/t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Terry
Plus you don't technically need a menu at all. You can.use the grub cli to boot whichever partitions you have mind to. Terry Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Friday 06 July 2012 01:18:42 Dale wrote: > >> But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then >> what? You can't select

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 06 July 2012 01:18:42 Dale wrote: > >> But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then >> what? You can't select to boot anything including the rescue system. > Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the > rescue sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 06 July 2012 01:18:42 Dale wrote: > But if you try to boot and the grub menu doesn't come up at all, then > what? You can't select to boot anything including the rescue system. Yet to happen, but if it did I'd have to boot a rescue CD, mount the rescue system and chroot to it, rerun g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Dale
walt wrote: > On 07/05/2012 04:20 PM, Dale wrote: > >> I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to >> upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other than >> chroot'in in and all. > There are basically only two ways that grub2 or grub1 can fail: > > Fi

[gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread walt
On 07/05/2012 04:20 PM, Dale wrote: > > I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to > upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other than > chroot'in in and all. There are basically only two ways that grub2 or grub1 can fail: First, you reboot and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Alecks Gates
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >>> I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to >>> upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other >>> than chroot'in in and all. I have a lot of partitions and they are >>> on LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> I'm waiting on new/more docs myself. I want to know not only how to >> upgrade but how to fix if it pukes on my keyboard. Hopefully other >> than chroot'in in and all. I have a lot of partitions and they are >> on LVM right now. That chroot'in is a pain in the butt.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 06 July 2012 00:20:15 Dale wrote: > Sebastian Pipping wrote: >8 > > Short version: if it's fear of the unknown with you too, I > > recommend getting to know that beast a little better. You'll > > either end up with many good arguments against it or find out that > > it's better than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Dale
Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hello, > > > On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2012-07-05, James wrote: >>> Has anyone seen/tried this guide? >>> >>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml >>> >>> The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2. >>> >>> as evid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello, On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-07-05, James wrote: >> Has anyone seen/tried this guide? >> >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml >> >> The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2. >> >> as evidence in the gentoo-dev thread. I curiou

[gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-07-05, James wrote: > Has anyone seen/tried this guide? > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/docs/grub2-migration.xml > > The devs seem to be moving along with migration to grub2. > > as evidence in the gentoo-dev thread. I curious if folks are going to > follow the docs, or are we each going