[gentoo-user] Re: grub

Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > > looks good, but try this: > > kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 > Actually since you have a separate /boot filesystem, it would be more > accurate to use: > kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 Yes both work. as well as what I decided to use

[gentoo-user] Re: grub

Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot) > > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > > When it worked from the command line of grub? > Probably because you had a space after root on the command line, but not > in grub.conf. If you'd tol

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> So assuming I've made some mistake in grub.conf I try to boot from >> grub command line. >> >> root = (hd0,0) (which is /dev/sda1 in linux terms) >> >> kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 > > Nope. Kern

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aah, now I see. It's one of two things, and neither is your > grub.conf. That's the kernel spitting that garbage at you, so your > grub.conf is just fine. You have either: > > 1. Compiled in the need for an initrd and have not supplied one, or

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Something seems to have changed with 2.6.25, more so than normal for new > versions. For instance, b43 refuses point blank to work here or do > anything remotely useful like a nice driver should. b43legacy doesn't > work either. They both work with ea

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The kernel is exactly where you should be monkeying. I reckon you have a > driver you need compiled in and it's a module because of the make > allconfig. I went thru the makeconfig carefully. Even disallowing an early item allowing intramfs boot, bu

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This is turning into a big time sink that I don't really have so I'll >> probably just use cygwin stuff to get some unix tools onto vista. >> >> But first, are you running gentoo in a vmware on vista

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 25 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So, I'm thinking it probably won't do any real good to monkey around >> with the kernel either, if the initramfs thing isn't the problem them >> it seems likely to be a vista problem. > > The kernel is

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: WARN: postinst *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but later stages will be the new version, which could cause prob

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. Which /boot partition? I don't have any ... If there's a setup-command in your grub.conf, it is indeed executed. So if that command is outdated (something you won't notice, since that command is no

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

On Wed, 07 May 2008 12:13:47 +0200 Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, > > just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. > > Which /boot partition? I don't have any ... I believe you've already avoided it being mounted, then. :) -- g

[gentoo-user] Re: GRUB error

Hi everybody, Thanks for the replies. I must change (hd1,4) to (hd0,4), however sda5 is my Suse's root partition. Interesting. 2007/8/7, cscscscscs cscscscscs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi folk, > > First of all sorry if my English is not perfect. > > I become a little bit upset sucking installing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub

On 7/20/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot) kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 When it worked from the command line of grub? To be honest, I'm not sure. Can you try something like this: root (hd0,1) title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 20:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > root (hd0,1) > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 root=/dev/hda6 > > 3. technically it is not "title=foo", but "title foo". Strange thing is that the Handbook actually has "title=foo" in its GRUB e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:57:31 + (UTC), James wrote: > Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot) > kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 > When it worked from the command line of grub? Probably because you had a space after root on the command line, but not in grub.conf. If you

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

Update. After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck /dev/sda That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped to hd2 The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/hde (hd1) /dev/hdh (hd2) /dev/sda I edited the grub.c

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

I am trying to bring up a new Linux unit (my old desktop died on Thursday). My hardware is an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, running an Athlon X2 3800+ Dual core processor. I have a serial ATA 250GB hard drive which I am attempting to install my OS into. The hard drive maps in the bios to SATA4, an

[gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem

Jacques Montier writes: > Hi all, > > I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. > I create primary partition sda3 for boot with ext3 file system, then > Extended partition for > swap sda5 > / sda6 with reiserfs file system > /usr sda7 with reiserfs file system > /home sd

[gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem

Jacques Montier writes: > Le 12/01/2011 20:07, Nuno J. Silva a écrit : >> Jacques Montier writes: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. >>> I create primary partition sda3 for boot with ext3 file system, then >>> Extended partition for >>> swa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

On Thursday 24 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> kernel /kernel-2.6.25-r1 root=(hd0)/sda3 > >> > >> Fails > > > > Won't work. (hd0) is a grub thing. You need a /dev/sda3 or similar > > in there > > I think you are wrong about that. But just a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

On 4/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > In the screen shot provided note that it appears grub is expecting an > intramfs and only lists those types of devices, rejecting both > (hd0,0) and /dev/sda3. > > http://www.jtan.com/~re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

On Friday 25 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you want to use an initrd, or due the highly customized thing > > and dispense with it? > > OK, let me explain a bit. I started compiling a kernel for this > install and somehow missed something i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

On Friday 25 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, I'm thinking it probably won't do any real good to monkey around > with the kernel either, if the initramfs thing isn't the problem them > it seems likely to be a vista problem. The kernel is exactly where you should be monkeying. I reckon yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is turning into a big time sink that I don't really have so I'll > probably just use cygwin stuff to get some unix tools onto vista. > > But first, are you running gentoo in a vmware on vista? I was just starting to think you might be frie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was just starting to think you might be friend material. Then you > > go and mention me and Vista in a positive sense in the same > > sentence. I shall now have to send some of the lads around to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

Sven Köhler wrote: >> When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: >> WARN: postinst >> *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install >> the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, >> stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but >> later stages will be the

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness [solved]

Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, »Q« wrote: > > Earlier today, I emerged grub-0.97-r5 on my x86 laptop, replacing > > 0.97-r4. I didn't run grub and didn't expect anything to be done > > to my boot partition. Now I've read > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! -Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, »Q« wrote: > In , > Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the > >following worked: > > [snip grub.conf] > > >I would've thought that the chainloader +1 statement would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Thufir wrote: > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! The grub man pages are, ahem, skimpy. IIRC it's all of three paragraphs. The full story is in the info pages, but the way they are written pre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 14:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Thufir wrote: > > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? > > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! > > The grub man pages are, ahem, skimpy. IIRC it's all of three > paragraphs. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On 18 Jul 2007, at 13:35, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: ... You can get everything at once and in the same place using the online docs: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html This manual is very excellent. I believe you can also get it in PDF format - I printed it out over 3 years ago an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller wrote: > On 18 Jul 2007, at 13:35, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > ... > > You can get everything at once and in the same place using the > > online docs: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html > > This manual is very excellent. > > I believe you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 01:02, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:12 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > In , > > > > Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I've read the GRUB documentation, but still don't understand why the > > >following worked: > > > > [snip grub.conf]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:53:45 +0100, Mick wrote: > If you have some reason not to mix one OS', or distro's boot files, > kernels, etc with another, plus if you want to try a different version > of grub then you can install grub separately in the new OS partition > (instead of the MBR) and chainload

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On 18 Jul 2007, at 16:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... I don't know. I think the overview is pretty clear , and leads into the remainder of the documentation quite well. ... The big stumbling block is getting people to grasp that grub is not an OS, it's not a linux app as linux is not in memory ye

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:06:57 +0100, Stroller wrote: > I have in the past considered putting grub.conf on a FAT32 partition > - I'm not 101% sure that'd work but I've never tried because I never > actually saw the usefulness. It will work, provided you call the file menu.lst, because the GRUB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) ---8<---8< 4.1.2 Load another boot loader to boot unsupported operating systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On 7/18/07, Александър Л. Димитров <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) ---8<---8< 4.1.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:30 +0200, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > On 23:51 Tue 17 Jul, Thufir wrote: > > Oh. Why was the grub documentation not understandable like that? > > maybe I misread it. thanks for explaining! > > I guess you missed it. `info grub' says (*Note chainloading) [snip] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] > I get a feel > that you are not an average person so your impressions are not valid > for them. hahaha!! If you know who this mythical average person is, let me know so we can pay her $$$ to test all of our software!! ;) -- Iai

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On 7/19/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Note that it's usually better to refer to the info command for more > serious documentation about GNU tools in general. RMS and his guys don't > exactly seem to like manpages that much that's what they have info for. > They have their p

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

> -Original Message- > From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:26 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader > > I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Thursday 19 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader': > I have seen many of them that the man page and the > info page were identicle. More often though it looked > like they made a decent man page, and coppied it to info. info auto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Stroller wrote: > > It's enough to make the > > average person's head spin (and does) - it can easily take two > > hours for me to get a class full of reasonably bright Windows > > techies to grasp ... > > You clearly have more experience than I do with teaching novices  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but > what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of > them is very deficient (in grub's case, man). The description is > different,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:36 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but > > what I _don't_ like is when you have both man and info, and one of > > th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GRUB error

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:12, cscscscscs cscscscscs wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Thanks for the replies. > > I must change (hd1,4) to (hd0,4), however sda5 is my Suse's root partition. > Interesting. When the CMOS is run it jumps to the first drive MBR. Then it reads the boot code there which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:22 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Update. > > After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck > /dev/sda That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped > to hd2 > > The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now > (fd0)   /dev/fd0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:56 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > >Try running grub, then at the grub command line: > >>root (hd2,5) > >>setup /dev/sda > >>quit > > > >-jm > > When I run setup /dev/sda, I get the error > "Error 11: Unrecognised device string" Try setup "(hd2)"...also I think the root comma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

On 10/29/06, Jeff Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, since the real ordering of the drives during the boot cycle is /dev/hda (the DVD drive) then /dev/sda, does that mean that the correct sequence is (hd0) /dev/dvdrw (hd1) /dev/sda (hd2) /dev/hde (hd3) /dev/hdh, Nope. /dev/dvdrw isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

, 2006 12:13 PM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems > >On Sunday 29 October 2006 20:11, Joe Menola wrote: >> On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:56 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> > >Try running grub, then at the grub command line:

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > The don't use it, grub:0 still works just fine It's all working fine (atm). But changes are problematic, or at least they have been in the past > I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure out > how to install that mini-OS that boot

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Jarry gmail.com> writes: > I have similar setup as you and upgraded grub without any > problem. If beta2-r3 worked for you, beta2-r7 will as well. > If you did not disable /boot automount, there are no special > steps needed. Portage will mount /boot, update grub, and > dismound afterwards...

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3  wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7    > It looks like he’s going from grub-2.02 to grub-2.02. I don’t think > any action is necessary. Notice r3--> r7 Grub 2 can be a bear in sheep's clothing > I know that for serve

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-07-16 17:41, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:01:29 + (UTC), James wrote: > >>> I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t >>> figure out how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot >>> loader which

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. > Nothing, I installed r7 on June 26th and the system just kept booting. > You can run grub-install if you really want to, but as this is a patch > level update to the same version, the

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Steven Lembark wrkhors.com> writes: > Solution that works for me: > - Compile the kernel with everything built-in leaving modules for the >few things that really need to be reloadable. Turn everything in >the bloody thing off. This avoids the need for a kernel-specific >filestem

[gentoo-user] Re: grub -> gummiboot: good

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/28/2015 06:08 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 28.01.2015 23:51, Tom H wrote: > >> Why two EFIs? >> >> One of them's unnecessary but if you want to have both, you have >> to have them both in the efibootmgr invocation. > > I don't know w

[gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

Florian Philipp binarywings.net> writes: > sys-boot/grub has two slots. The default slot 0 with version numbers > around 0.92-0.97 is grub-1 (or grub legacy). Slot 2 with version numbers > around 1.99 is grub-2. Because it is still in development hell, it has > not reached version 2.00. OK, thi

[gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > There are scripts to automatically generate a configuration but > grub-mkconfig is no more compulsory than genkernel - but both can make > life easier when setting up multiple, different systems. Neil et al, Where is the BEST (gentoo) grub2 documentation?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem

Le 12/01/2011 20:07, Nuno J. Silva a écrit : > Jacques Montier writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. >> I create primary partition sda3 for boot with ext3 file system, then >> Extended partition for >> swap sda5 >> / sda6 with reiserfs file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

On 16-Jul-15 22:08, James wrote: I have similar setup as you and upgraded grub without any problem. If beta2-r3 worked for you, beta2-r7 will as well. If you did not disable /boot automount, there are no special steps needed. Portage will mount /boot, update grub, and dismound afterwards... AH

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Solution that works for me: - Compile the kernel with everything built-in leaving modules for the few things that really need to be reloadable. Turn everything in the bloody thing off. This avoids the need for a kernel-specific filestem in the initrd. - This since you don't need any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

Am 16.07.2015 um 22:05 schrieb James: > I spent days during early kernel upgrades getting grub2 happy. You only need to run `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg` after each kernel update. I'm using grub2 not for such a long time, but I made some kernel upgrades since I switched from grub-legacy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:01:29 + (UTC), James wrote: > > I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure > > out how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot loader which > > bootstraps a boot loader which loads code that loads a kernel. So back > > to grub:0 for me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:54:31 -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote: > The Gummiboot project is no longer maintained, it has been merged into > systemd as systemd-boot (note that using any other part of Systemd > should *not* be required to use systemd-boot, but I don't know for > sure because I do not have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:36:51AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > could try it on. But it's a headless MythTV backend in the loft, so > there will be fun and games if it doesn't boot. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say there will be _no_ fun and games if it doesn't boot? -- wraeth GnuPG Key: B

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:45:59 +1000, wraeth wrote: > > could try it on. But it's a headless MythTV backend in the loft, so > > there will be fun and games if it doesn't boot. > > Wouldn't it be more accurate to say there will be _no_ fun and games if > it doesn't boot? Well, with no TV to watc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub-2 update

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:40:16AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:45:59 +1000, wraeth wrote: > > > > could try it on. But it's a headless MythTV backend in the loft, so > > > there will be fun and games if it doesn't boot. > > > > Wouldn't it be more accurate to say there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub -> gummiboot: good

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.01.2015 um 02:34 schrieb Jonathan Callen: > You have mounted your ESP on /boot, so you need to tell grub *that* > is your ESP, not "/boot/efi", like so: > > # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot > > Once you do that, everyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub -> gummiboot: good

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.01.2015 um 11:05 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 30.01.2015 um 02:34 schrieb Jonathan Callen: > >> You have mounted your ESP on /boot, so you need to tell grub >> *that* is your ESP, not "/boot/efi", like so: > >> # grub2-install --target=x8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:57:27 + (UTC), James wrote: > Where is the BEST (gentoo) grub2 documentation? I'm not saying it's the best, but the one I used to switch over is http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 -- Neil Bothwick Bugs are Sons of Glitches signature.asc Description: PGP signatur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short summary or something. TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open source/linux/unix/free software history book? Something that mentioned the FSF foundation, the GPL creation, the XFree86 -> X.org evolution, linux [.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: > mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short > summary or something. > > TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open > source/linux/unix/free software history book? Something that mentio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:57:27 + (UTC), James wrote: > >> Where is the BEST (gentoo) grub2 documentation? > > I'm not saying it's the best, but the one I used to switch over is > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 One thing I don't see add

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:33:06 -0500, Doug Hunley wrote: > > I'm not saying it's the best, but the one I used to switch over is > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 > > One thing I don't see addressed is having /boot on a RAID1 setup. For > Grub Legacy, I do: > grub > device (hd0) /dev/sda >

[gentoo-user] Re: grub doesn't autoselect a kernel

> I have grub running on many Gentoo machines but on one of them it sits > on the kernel selection screen and doesn't autoboot even though the > menu says: > > "The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 2 seconds." > > Nothing happens for any length of time but pressing Enter boots the

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems on old proliant

sorry, it was silly of me to try to install one grub on top of another.  managed to foul up grub, putting secondary os back in so i can do it right.  hopefully i can just update grub manually. mad.scientist.at.large (a good madscientist) -- God bless the rich, the greedy and the corrupt politici

[gentoo-user] Re: grub menu and the new openrc

On 05/15/2011 01:34 PM, Dale wrote: Hi, I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user mode and rebuild my video drivers. Since I have this in my grub list, I just select single user and it boots to single user mode. Well, not any more. This is my current settings: No nee

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual "make modules_install && make install". I edited grub.conf only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (j

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

Stroller wrote: On 17 Feb 2009, at 04:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual "make modules_install && make install". I edited grub.conf only to the point of

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:17:07 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual "make modules_install && make install". I edited grub.conf only t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub doesn't autoselect a kernel

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Grant wrote: >> I have grub running on many Gentoo machines but on one of them it sits >> on the kernel selection screen and doesn't autoboot even though the >> menu says: >> >> "The highlighted entry will be booted automatically in 2 seconds." >> >> Nothing happen

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-mkconfig doesn't pick UUID/LABEL

On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > When I run grub-mkconfig (it's grub2, -multislot), it generates > root=/dev/md127p2. md arrays get assembled at boot so their numbers > aren't fixed. > > So far I've been manually editing the generated config. But I don't want > a non-b

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

Neil Bothwick writes: >> But no update-grub > > update-grub is an Ubuntuism, not part of standard GRUB. It's only a one > line shell script that runs > > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Even a large proportion of Ubuntu users would be able to manage without > it. yeah, I saw once I look

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

Neil Bothwick writes: > You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school > vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or at > least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg > but /etc/default/grub when you want to add kernel parameters.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

On 17 Feb 2009, at 04:51, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Stroller wrote: On 17 Feb 2009, at 04:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did the usual "make modules_install && ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue

On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > One thing that could be at fault is that I had grub installed into hd0,2 > (sda3) which is an ext4 partition. I think that this is probably the cause. GRUB has these stage 1.5 fs related files: `e2fs_stage1_5' `fat_stage1_5' `ffs_stage1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:20:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > What can you tell me about how to get an initial hi-res frame buffer > during boot and after when in console mode? KMS takes care of that with real hardware, but not so much with virtual hardware. > I know how to do it in grub:0. But I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:05:11 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school > > vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or > > at least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg > > but /etc/default/grub

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

This profile change seems to have hit a few people in sensitive locations. What is the upshot of this change? Can I eyeball the diff _before_ I sync ? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 2017-12-02 20:14, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> You're seeing a lot of reports because there is a news item telling > >> people to switch to the new profile and run "emerge -e @world". > > > > Does this mean that "emerge -e @world" should be run or that the > > news item is wrong in this point?

[gentoo-user] Re: grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 2017-12-04 18:13, Daniel Frey wrote: > I guess I'll have to remember to use 500M+ /boot partitions now. Sigh. I don't get it. matica!7 rc$ du /boot/grub 2022/boot/grub/i386-pc 1340/boot/grub/fonts 2785/boot/grub/themes/starfield 2786/boot/grub/themes 3163/boot/grub/locale

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On 2024-04-27, Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:53:25 BST Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. To be consistent I like >> to use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my >> drives, regardless of size. > > GPT is the partition table stru

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On 2024-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote: > With DOS disk lables, Grub uses empty space between the boot sector > and the first partition as a location to store it's core image file. > That empty space does not exist when using GPT disk label. When using > a GPT disk label, Grub requires that you need

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On 2024-05-01, Dale wrote: > OK.  One last update in case someone googles and runs up on this > thread.  I'm using gdisk to display this, because I think it will do > better in email.  If I use cgdisk, it is wider and will wrap more.  > This is what the partition table looks like for GPT, old BIO

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On 2024-05-01, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> The partition type code for 'swap' is wrong -- it should be >> 8200. According to the gdisk help info Linux /home is supposed to be >> 8302, but I've always used the same generic "Linux filesystem" type >> for both /home and root. >> >> Is the

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On 2024-05-15, Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur. 🙂 Anyway, I never let >> it near my systems. > > I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-( > > Grub isn't that bad - it's just that insists on trying to do every

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

On 2024-05-16, Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 16 May 2024 01:10:32 BST k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> Wol: >> > On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > > I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur. 🙂 Anyway, I >> > > never let it near my systems. >> > >> > I liked lilo. And then

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