From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MApHQ-0006bj-Ou for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:57:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BDBDE0297; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18218E0297 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 838A4F389B for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 18:57:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 18:57:01 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub: how to install new version of stage 1 Message-ID: <20090531185701.6e1852f2@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200905311943.56424.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> References: <4A2181F4.2040407@uri.edu> <200905311943.56424.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs64 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/bBarhzWWPVeUqNyEI0tAOjq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 64f441fb-d947-413d-9d03-a3e5bc87a6e4 X-Archives-Hash: 6d6a31d736019b0c04b461c9ddcea8cb --Sig_/bBarhzWWPVeUqNyEI0tAOjq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 31 May 2009 19:43:55 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > On a x86 machine I did "emerge -D -uav world" and got a response that > > read in part as follows: > > * Messages for package sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9: =20 >=20 > There's no need whatsoever to update grub once it's in your MBR. > There's even no need to keep the package on your machine, you can just > uninstall it Not updating your MBR means your stage 1 is a different version from your stage1.5 and stage2, which may or may not cause problems. Or you you mean there's no need to install the newer version at all? --=20 Neil Bothwick Get your grubby hands off my tagline! I stole it first! --Sig_/bBarhzWWPVeUqNyEI0tAOjq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoixPEACgkQum4al0N1GQN4vgCdFsGgevDo2qeZCxG1lSiFNqRM AWEAoMuh/Nwbg6B3oSrSh457s7jfAUoU =kZib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/bBarhzWWPVeUqNyEI0tAOjq--