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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Smvwq-0005lH-I0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:59:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A694BE06D6; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:58:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEADDE049A for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19CB7C6E5A for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:57:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([77.75.108.10]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id t0bgXhBl80SD for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:57:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A01C6E11 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:57:29 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:57:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.3.8-gentoo; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4FF60A04.3000506@gentoo.org> <4FF6212F.4010103@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FF6212F.4010103@gmail.com> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201207060057.29334.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7fcaea62-3900-482f-b3ba-ceb893e791f1 X-Archives-Hash: 9f060bbdb9280ca90bbbabb237398135 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 you expected in the beginning. My guess is the > > latter. Anyway. Give it a try. Good advice. I don't intend to go the GRUB2 way though until I have to, simply because GRUB ain't broke so I don't need to fix it. ---->8 > 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. Oh, LOTS > of stuff in /usr too so it has to be mounted for you to fix grub. I have what seems to be an unusual solution of that problem. Each of my boxes has a small, bootable rescue system in its own partition, and of course its own entry in grub.conf. Its fstab defines all the main-system partitions so I only have to mount them. Chrooting is as painless as it can be. Recently, since I've banished ~amd64 except in a few cases, I've only used any of the rescue systems for backing up its main system to a USB drive. -- Rgds Peter