From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331A41389FE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96AE7E094B; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:27:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26682E082F for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.5.48.27] (unknown [80.30.64.232]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7EC1F203F4 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:27:03 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <15724934.eWR0Wdy2P9@wstn> References: <54536D16.6090401@libertytrek.org> <8373843.QKcfWZa5E2@andromeda> <15724934.eWR0Wdy2P9@wstn> 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: multipart/alternative; boundary="----5YC1G8A419740GNBPYRAQ2O74Q7FBT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels From: Neil Bothwick Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 20:26:57 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <75c8179d-5bc3-4026-9b07-fb7a2f85555b@email.android.com> X-Archives-Salt: d8872e85-b7a8-4714-8190-750ba1fd63a8 X-Archives-Hash: a25388e1861236932756e1559b3e529e ------5YC1G8A419740GNBPYRAQ2O74Q7FBT Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 31 October 2014 16:16:33 WET, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely > caused > > by some changes in used filesystems instead of any other cause. > > If I really wanted to, I might get it to work, but I don't see the > point in > > spending time on this. > > Grub starts the boot process and then, afaik, disappears. > > Which is sufficient for me. > > My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run > levels at > boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this yet, or it couldn't the last > time I > checked. I don't suggest that everyone has a similar need, but at > least in > some cases the old grub does still have a place. > > -- > Rgds > Peter Grub2 can do that in at least three different ways. You can write a complete manual configuration, just like with 0.9,you can put a manual custom configuration in /etc/grub.d or you can put a simple she'll script in that directory that creates menu entries with each set of options for each kernel in /boot. None of these options are any more complex than creating a grub 0 configuration by hand. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ------5YC1G8A419740GNBPYRAQ2O74Q7FBT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
On 31 October 2014 16:16:33 WET, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote:

 I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely caused
 by some changes in used filesystems instead of any other cause.
 If I really wanted to, I might get it to work, but I don't see the point in
 spending time on this.
 Grub starts the boot process and then, afaik, disappears.
 Which is sufficient for me.

My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run levels at 
boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this yet, or it couldn't the last time I 
checked. I don't suggest that everyone has a similar need, but at least in 
some cases the old grub does still have a place.

Grub2 can do that in at least three different ways. You can write a complete manual configuration, just like with 0.9,you can put a manual custom configuration in /etc/grub.d or you can put a simple she'll script in that directory that creates menu entries with each set of options for each kernel in /boot.

None of these options are any more complex than creating a grub 0 configuration by hand.
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