On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:00 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> dpkg-divert
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/118
I wasn't aware that it's that easy :D, not especially regarding to the
GRUB issue, but it would have saved me some work with other packages.
OTOH, because I wasn't aware of this,
On Wed 13 Mar 2013 at 23:19:57 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you
> > do
> > that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace
> > it with something harmle
On 2013-03-13 23:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you
>> do
>> that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace
>> it with something harmless, say a symli
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you
> do
> that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace
> it with something harmless, say a symlink to /bin/true. Otherwise the
> local changes to gru
On 2013-03-13 12:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you
>> > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of al
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 09:07 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > menuentry 'Ubuntu Quantal, kernel 3.6.5-rt14' {
> > set root='(hd1,9)'; set legacy_hdbias='0'
> > legacy_kernel '/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14' '/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14'
> > 'root=/dev/sdb9' 'ro' 'quiet' ''
> > legacy_initrd '/boot/initrd.img-3.6.5-rt
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 04:34 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> You can set the default in "/etc/default/grub" as
>> 'GRUB_DEFAULT="Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)"'.
>
> The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you
> also could tidy u
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you
> > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the nonsense.
>
> root@tal:~# ls -al /boot/grub/gr
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you
> also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the nonsense.
root@tal:~# ls -al /boot/grub/grub.cfg
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 3356 Mar 1 22:53 /boot/grub/grub.cfg
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 04:34 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar
> wrote:
> >
> > My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now
> > and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any
> > luck with upgrades, I've always
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar
wrote:
>
> My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now
> and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any
> luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation.
>
> Currently the Grub boot me
On 03/12/2013 02:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now
and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any
luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation.
Currently the Grub boot menu has a number of
My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now
and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any
luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation.
Currently the Grub boot menu has a number of choices:
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