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 1Smwol-0000YN-2d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:54:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBDC6E0517; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C636EE06BF for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:52:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE94C6E5A for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 01:52:22 +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 y-8PhmV4WthO for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 01:52:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5487C6E11 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 01:52:21 +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 01:52:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.3.8-gentoo; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201207060057.29334.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4FF62EE2.6050703@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FF62EE2.6050703@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: <201207060152.21368.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 90fbfe8e-ddf4-400e-b3ff-ffc95b7205ec X-Archives-Hash: a8f7c69bcf9dad142f0185d0def5859a 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 grub and reboot. Doesn't sound like much of a problem to me. > I want to be able to fix whatever happens. Grub has been good to me > so far but I have had a time when after the BIOS was done, I got > nothing, nothing at all. That would be something I would want to > know how to fix since I can't even boot to get help or search > google. If it isn't between my ears, I'm toast. Right now, there > is very little grub2 between my ears. Sometimes there is very > little at all between my ears. lol Not sure what we're arguing about here. My method suits me, yours you. :-) -- Rgds Peter