[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-08 Thread »Q«
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. :) --

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-07 Thread Sven Köhler
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 So if that command is outdated (something you won't notice, since that command is

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Sven Köhler
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

2008-05-06 Thread Wolf Canis
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 new

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

2008-05-06 Thread »Q«
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 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218599,