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 1SmwPc-0003jN-Lg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:28:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 444ABE0760; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (mail-lb0-f181.google.com [209.85.217.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76737E0752 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbgk8 with SMTP id gk8so13303996lbb.40 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:26:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=ZRyLEjxxufmC1rDzBgBGt+YiH8R3FCw+sM7BzC+tsXc=; b=IXmITjwTylBUNUl6Uj1ygWYeQGyVWM4sYPjZNNCMiy8uHGcQeSvfNh8Vg8wd1k65Hm LGTlp6C+ehEKnUai06mGoStnDL8qmPz6n7Ni9JfpHbdWwAyRVKQWjgs+gpsQZctGLpup FEa3U62ajROowz+B3BPhFeDFqN/dVYLhFpU5EntALuSVNM5GgZiI/Gpy+U/0GU9mqaPL yd2zJfG3w+1PLDf/czln+9atdFDQs0moE10MWMTA6/eESGyIZOoMSw5JzUhs4krgoAqc Ts69QWX+VPSbJmSqwX/sszue8F9pO0bbB7qQEbw+FuuWj5zFIb7Mt8rx8nhDlv2yR2YU Xvpg== 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 Received: by 10.152.146.163 with SMTP id td3mr14285066lab.26.1341534411307; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.24.231 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:26:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FF62EE2.6050703@gmail.com> References: <4FF60A04.3000506@gentoo.org> <4FF6212F.4010103@gmail.com> <201207060057.29334.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4FF62EE2.6050703@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:26:51 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration From: Alecks Gates To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 63e7004a-2707-4bea-b9a4-fcb739eddcaf X-Archives-Hash: 56d307cd44c1cafd91a9d53442c9d0d3 On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dale wrote: > 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! > > I like to keep a copy of "Super Grub[2] Disk" around: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Never heard of "rescatux" until now, but that looks interesting.