Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

2022-12-10 Thread Michael
On Friday, 9 December 2022 18:39:33 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 10:57 AM Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 9 December 2022 17:17:24 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > It's not totally a thought experiment. One machine I have which > > > is dual boot recently complained that the ori

Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

2022-12-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 10:57 AM Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 9 December 2022 17:17:24 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > > It's not totally a thought experiment. One machine I have which > > is dual boot recently complained that the original disk grub was > > installed on had changed when in fact there ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

2022-12-09 Thread Michael
On Friday, 9 December 2022 17:17:24 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 4:07 AM Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 11:55, Michael wrote: > > > To check the GRUB version of the second OS without booting into it, you > > can > > > > grep for grub in its /var/log/emerge.log

Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

2022-12-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 4:07 AM Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 11:55, Michael wrote: > > To check the GRUB version of the second OS without booting into it, you can > > grep for grub in its /var/log/emerge.log > > Or see what version is named in the /usr/share/doc/grub-2.?? folder n

Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

2022-12-09 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 11:55, Michael wrote: > To check the GRUB version of the second OS without booting into it, you can > grep for grub in its /var/log/emerge.log Or see what version is named in the /usr/share/doc/grub-2.?? folder name. On the other hand, if the question is *really* about know

Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

2022-12-09 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 8 December 2022 20:55:30 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >This is a bit of a conceptual question, simplified but based on a > machine I do own, from someone who knows very little about boot loader > implementations. (I.e. - me) Thanks in advance for any pointers you can > provide. >

[gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This is a bit of a conceptual question, simplified but based on a machine I do own, from someone who knows very little about boot loader implementations. (I.e. - me) Thanks in advance for any pointers you can provide. Assume a machine with two separate M.2 SSDs. The M.2 devices are ident