[gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2
Neil Bothwick neil at 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? The last link says that the reason grub2 is still masked, is the lack of documentation All I've found so far is: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-documentation.html http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 http://dev.gentoo.org/~scarabeus/grub-2-guide.xml http://blogs.gentoo.org/scarabeus/2011/09/17/grub2-4-months-after/ Any other docs/examples for grub2? Something dumbed_down for us older admins, would be keen James
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 signature
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 [..]. - 2.4 - 2.6 evolution, sound stack evolution (OSS, ALSA, JACK, PA, ESD, Arts, Phonon), multimedia history (ffmpeg, mplayer, mplayer2, gstreamer, xine, vlc). It could go all the way back to shell's, like sh, csh, BASH, zsh.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com 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 mentioned the FSF foundation, the GPL creation, the XFree86 - X.org evolution, linux [..]. - 2.4 - 2.6 evolution, sound stack evolution (OSS, ALSA, JACK, PA, ESD, Arts, Phonon), multimedia history (ffmpeg, mplayer, mplayer2, gstreamer, xine, vlc). It could go all the way back to shell's, like sh, csh, BASH, zsh. Not OSS related, but I really enjoyed reading Dennis Ritchie's article on the history of the C programming language (which also gets into the early UNIX days): http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:11, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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 addressed is having /boot on a RAID1 setup. For Grub Legacy, I do: grub device (hd0) /dev/sda grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) then repeat for sdb, sdc, and sdd Does Grub2 deal w/ this better or the same? -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
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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 grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) then repeat for sdb, sdc, and sdd Does Grub2 deal w/ this better or the same? I do it just the same. It's not really a GRUB thing, the BIOS needs somewhere to load GRUB from, whatever the version number. -- Neil Bothwick I thought I saw the light at the end of the tunnel... but it was just some sod with a torch bringing me more work! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2
Florian Philipp lists at 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, this part I understand. IIRC, sys-boot/grub-static is mostly there for systems that cannot compile grub, for example AMD64 no-multilib profiles. OK, from the handbook Thanks for clearing that up. The second part of this question, is what version of grub do I use with an AMD64 RAID-1-workstation install that will use this (multilib) profile: [5] default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde * But I intend to put RAID-1 on the boot/root/swap partitions. ext2 and ext4 FS for boot/root. Any preferred version of grub (grub-1) will do ? Trying to use this document: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software The advice about grub (1 vs 2) and mdadm RAID-metadata all confuses the grub choice for me. Should I use Grub-1 ? or Grub-2 ? Or maybe I should just do a traditional gentoo (handbook) install and then migrate to a RAID-1 workstation, via this document: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Migrate_to_RAID I've spent countless hours on numerous attempts to do it all in one install, and grub will not boot for me. IDEAS? James
