Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> On 07/05/2012 08:28 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2012-07-05, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> 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
>
>


I been reading up on this beast too.  The commands and such appear to be
specific to Gentoo OR at least different from Kubuntu.  My money is on
Kubuntu being weird.  On my bro's Kubuntu I run grub-update but on
Gentoo it is grub-mkconfig or something to that effect.  I noticed that
with Gentoo there is a option on the tail end too.  With Kubuntu there
is no options or at least none needed anyway. 

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.  <  sighs >

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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