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From: Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 05:44:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOdo=SxwrSzYNan85rW435SEYgfBr36hb=R3v9z2c_0mLK7uxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ccb40792-a402-b023-e456-0337035995c1@gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was genuinely annoyed with grub2 due to its update and massive config
> files, so I never upgraded to it. I usually had multiple kernel versions and
> grub2 helpfully labeled them all "Linux" so I couldn't tell them apart.
>
> I figured out you can still write your own grub2 files, and it wasn't that
> difficult, other than its numbering is different now (no base-0
> partitions... argh.)

You can use

search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root filesystem_uuid

instead of

root=(hdX,msdosY)

and avoid having to deal with the grub1 to grub2 change of disks
starting at 0 and partitions at 1. Why the grub developers didn't make
disks to start at 1 when they made the partitions start at 1 is a
mystery. Maybe we'll be surprised in a future grub3 :)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-05 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-02 12:30 [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change Mick
2017-12-02 21:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-02 23:28   ` Mick
2017-12-03  2:11     ` Adam Carter
2017-12-02 23:33   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-03  1:07     ` Heiko Baums
2017-12-03  1:14       ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-03  2:18         ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-03  2:27           ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-03 10:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2017-12-03 15:12   ` Mick
2017-12-05  1:54     ` Daniel Frey
2017-12-05  2:13       ` Daniel Frey
2017-12-05  2:15         ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-12-05  3:39           ` Daniel Frey
2017-12-05 10:15             ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-05 10:44             ` Tom H [this message]
2017-12-05  7:06         ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-05  2:20       ` [gentoo-user] " wabe
2017-12-05 10:11         ` Mick
2017-12-05 10:21           ` Raffaele Belardi
2017-12-05 12:48             ` Mick
2017-12-06  1:58           ` wabe
2017-12-06 12:28     ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-07 12:04       ` Kai Peter
2017-12-07 14:22         ` Peter Humphrey
2017-12-07 15:06           ` Helmut Jarausch
2017-12-07 16:51           ` Kai Peter

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