On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:43:20 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> -------
> The scripts in /etc/grub.d/ are quite complicated. The also insist that
> the kernel names be in the form of
>
> /boot/vmlinuz-* /vmlinuz-* /boot/kernel-*
>
> I like to name my kernels in the form of linux* so none were picked up.
> I'm leaning towards just eliminating the use of grub-mkconfig other than
> for a warning not to use it.
I call my kernels bzImage so it doesn't work for me either.
> We can just use a
>
> cat > /boot/grub/grub.cfg << "EOF"
> ...
> EOF
Works for me.
set timeout=10
menuentry "Linux From Scratch" {
linux /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sdb2 quiet
}
What more do you need? For me it's never needed any insmod or whatever
> If you already have GRUB2 loaded, upgrading is a bit trickier. Running:
>
> grub-install --grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda
>
> to an existing grub location (/boot/grub/ by default) will completely
> disable the ability to boot from the disk (including the grub command
> line) until you run:
>
> grub-setup /dev/sda
>
I don't follow you. Surely /boot/grub/ will be on the new LFS
partition. How does that affect the currently installed grub/MBR?
> Perhaps we should not try to do the testing as currently described and
> just do:
>
> grub-install /dev/sda
>
> instead. That means that /boot/grub/grub.cfg better be right. In any
> case I think that would allow the system to get to the grub command
> prompt even with a missing .cfg file.
>
> Thoughts?
I've always disliked the scripts grub2 installs with their DO NOT EDIT
THIS FILE nonsense. Grub-1.99 has worked well for me for more than a
month. It'll be fine.
Andy
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