Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 upgrade not working

[Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Pavel Volkov <negaipub@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 24 November 2013 02:19:05 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
>> > No I have not touched any of the grub files. On my kernel boot line
>> above I
>> > do use  dolvm. Will check on that though.
>>
>> Of course it won't boot then.
>> GRUB 2 does not use grub.conf anymore.
>> It reads /boot/grub/grub.cfg. This file is formed automatically by grub2-
>> mkconfig command, you have to edit the parameters in /etc/default/grub.
>>
>> Did edit the new /etc/default/grub:
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="dolvm"
>
> Still no booting. Hangs on loading the initial ramdisk ...
> I can boot using systemrescuecd. Unfortunately I finalized the install of
> grub2 and no longer have grub legacy installed. I regret that. Also, before
> I finalized the grub2 install I tested the initramfs with grub legacy and
> it worked. There were two new issues I addressed in this recent portage
> sync. One was the use of a initramfs because my / and /usr are not in the
> same filesystem. /usr is actually under lvm control. I created a initramfs
> with genkernel (--lvm option) and as I stated earlier it worked with grub
> legacy. So the problem is grub2 configuration at this point.
>
> Thanks for any help including info on how to go back to grub legacy if
> necessary.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Valmor
>


Does anyone know whether there is a place I can look for error messages?
still no luck on booting with grub2.

Thanks,

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Valmor

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