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 1SmxCz-00060O-Vk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:19:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6DA3E0652; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 01:19:30 +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 46DE6E0691 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 01:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbup19 with SMTP id up19so15170764obb.40 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:17:56 -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=J2xy5mZllrwCEORH9YXEqzFFPGhjOxTWEcYMTWyOVS8=; b=s2ZcJieRMZmk3i1KkhqVgsQymcGk24O6AD6BIeJYSH4Je1tVOYbokiSZgtYpN4JikV FvTQS7kFy9A0es+fWoIFmUJSRqHTU9fnMrrigJdDxRnVu+l7pD4l4yEvYJZsLky6pELj 2yiNFDln1FxKriMca2KM5omfUYpZAvUHmzC24QN+5sydSnruzwIjVKchAmT+yAeoijOy b/wzH+XLAH8qL4Yv7qg1jLThZevGmOcmGxohmRpvVKBADlISqyzo5l5u4pCqyUyMDWDU B5GvGoHHzlNdn2dCz/DBViCHa9t6PYEbSzUrp7QeEpqrcbPXWqJ01E901Qgrt+kXV5/s x73A== Received: by 10.60.154.232 with SMTP id vr8mr28896670oeb.30.1341537476664; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:17:56 -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 jn2sm17338215obb.13.2012.07.05.18.17.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:17:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FF63CC1.4090106@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:17:53 -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: <201207060057.29334.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4FF62EE2.6050703@gmail.com> <201207060152.21368.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201207060152.21368.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: 669b2342-8754-46ca-958c-28037d3e2cc1 X-Archives-Hash: 1f2d114b384c83e03c9a02d8cd5993d1 Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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. It would be for me. I have my system partitioned out pretty well. Since so much stuff has moved to /usr, that means I would have to mount basically every partition I have. It's not a problem but as I mentioned, it is a pain in the butt. It's also something I would like to avoid if possible. That is why I, likely others too, want more info and docs so that we can rescue ourselves. > >> 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. > :-) > Not arguing, just pointing out that things can and do fail and that having good plans before it happens is a good idea. Something that hal taught me in a quick hurry. Just because something works for most people doesn't mean we shouldn't plan for a problem. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!