From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB v2
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:07:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da27042ef5e4f30404100e5f5ca6f212.squirrel@www.antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201108151052.57174.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:52 am, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding and
> using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles here
> too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being
> dense, or maybe it was on another list.
>
> I want to try another distro on an oldish box, but its gentoo grub can't
> chain to the grub-2 on another boot partition - it reports an invalid
> executable format, or something like that.
>
> Looks like time to bone up on grub-2 as it's the Coming Thing.
6 months might not be enough, there was a thread called "[gentoo-user] A
tiny titillating taste of grub2" and dates back to 9 January 2011.
There also was a thread called "[gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for idiots
like me" by walt (24 January 2011) which is, I believe, what you're
looking for.
--
Joost
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-15 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-15 9:52 [gentoo-user] GRUB v2 Peter Humphrey
2011-08-15 10:07 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2011-08-15 13:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-15 13:15 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-08-15 18:38 ` Dale
2011-08-15 20:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-16 6:57 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-16 7:28 ` Dale
2011-08-16 8:19 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-16 9:01 ` Dale
2011-08-16 9:16 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-16 10:08 ` Dale
2011-08-16 17:05 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-08-17 6:21 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-16 19:09 ` kashani
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