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 A38B3138825 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 11:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2741E0A5F; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 11:20:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7945BE09F6 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 11:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XkWit-000EdV-Jj for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:19:59 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:19:58 +0000 Message-ID: <78607509.rcQ5WraxNG@wstn> Organization: Society for Retired Gentlefolk User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <75c8179d-5bc3-4026-9b07-fb7a2f85555b@email.android.com> References: <15724934.eWR0Wdy2P9@wstn> <75c8179d-5bc3-4026-9b07-fb7a2f85555b@email.android.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: fcbc17ec-069f-4470-86d2-4df559cfdb71 X-Archives-Hash: 6273114a80f0e44c371cfe64f1cad1d9 On Friday 31 October 2014 20:26:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > > 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. Well, it looks as though grub-2 has grown since I looked into it, but as it's going to need a whole new chapter of learning on my part, I think I'll put off doing it for a while. -- Rgds Peter