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 1SmwHV-00021R-LV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:20:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5744EE06C1; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f181.google.com (mail-ob0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EED3E04C2 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:18:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup19 with SMTP id up19so15101230obb.40 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:18:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6MPUirQfGedGsD585WqAMWhTgZTLEchkzB9uJGKcdY8=; b=Lqr2PiROV7YO/MVsGVBXQ1D9shaojrjJPFKbPz4N+EXD+tC9486A0LzyJK92YggOOg KzhFtakAOjnawu0HBVLsC/VXAf2IZuCeMLUxcj5O8k9AB05mfniY3vezZ91ZFKPR+GH7 3Yfr4waRQuD5C58iN8+mVeNGqn8c1C1+BckQp6B8R4FCpzKzDCyoYSRuvOodZyaPBGKf M2lrYFoR/I7fQkEG/lMCkN2bJGKEcsrrxwfxidfp5u/GTfjZJbHhXFI9o7mNHU+BaBAq RT0lkBdW9L+mtOHVH0Oyw8l8qH1+aA6DqigvLywAIl2BUcgXOE8XCSP9qmWLiUtzL8fh krXg== Received: by 10.60.28.162 with SMTP id c2mr28849335oeh.3.1341533924948; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-128-95.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.128.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hz6sm15004375obb.1.2012.07.05.17.18.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FF62EE2.6050703@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:18:42 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120628 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 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: <4FF60A04.3000506@gentoo.org> <4FF6212F.4010103@gmail.com> <201207060057.29334.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201207060057.29334.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 057b99e7-1fe9-4fea-8a3e-63d0420b8d15 X-Archives-Hash: 955d127e3cb5464916784f7fbdbd98a8 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> 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. > 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. 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 Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!