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 1RBoMu-0006gR-Cx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:52:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C81C721C177; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:51:58 +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 83F6721C176 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:51:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C864880477 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:51:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 14:51:03 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Message-ID: <20111006145103.42fba05a@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87ty7m2shz.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111004110746.395635e0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <87ty7m2shz.fsf@newsguy.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10cvs18 (GTK+ 2.24.6; 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_/USHBfbsBua1a_GU.IqTaxPx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9348f5901cc815c4a735e06875679dfa --Sig_/USHBfbsBua1a_GU.IqTaxPx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:51:04 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > /boot/grub/grub.cfg itself is 111 lines. Its not the most complex > script going but for me it would take some serious study for an hour > or more to figure out what is happening in it. But of course you are > not supposed to edit grub.cfg directly. But you can if you wish. >=20 > It is orders of magnitude more complicated in my opinion... I'm not > sure what the advantages are supposed to be. Better automation. > Also, its not clear how one would install a new kernel. Where to put > the information and so forth. See above. You don't put anything anywhere when installing a new kernel, just run grub-update and it will be found and added to the menu. At the same time, any old kernels you have deleted will be removed. --=20 Neil Bothwick System halted - hit any Microsoft employee to continue. --Sig_/USHBfbsBua1a_GU.IqTaxPx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6NskcACgkQum4al0N1GQMBlwCgscihSjS9r2KBLHKijHQ8768U faUAn0Qz4tHgwUsbri83nwQH+GNWuJ1A =jLjC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/USHBfbsBua1a_GU.IqTaxPx--