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 1Smtpo-0003Bl-G4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:43:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13F10E0741; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:43:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.29.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D309E04CB for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 21:41:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.11.142] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Smto8-0000nl-JS for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:41:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4FF60A04.3000506@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:41:24 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120608 Thunderbird/13.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: c3BpbmctZ2VudG9vQGJpbmVyYS5kZQ== X-Archives-Salt: 3c728504-fa44-42e5-a25f-439ceafad344 X-Archives-Hash: b5bac75e5c9a79dbd32996cbbf6ae77d 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 curious if folks are going to >> follow the docs, or are we each going to wing out way to grub2 with >> the legacy installs of gentoo? > > I plan on dragging my feet for as long as possible, and won't switch > until I'm forced to. And by "forced to" I mean that grub-legacy > simply won't work anymore -- regardless of whether there's a Gentoo > package for it or not. a few weeks ago I was one of those people about to stay away from GRUB 2 as long as possible. What I didn't know is that part of what I knew and disliked about GRUB 2 was (only) specific to Debian, the fact that you no longer edit /etc/grub/grub.cfg directly: you edit parts that are combined for you. 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. Best, Sebastian