Re: [gentoo-user] keeping grub 1

2015-08-25 Thread Florian Gamböck 

Hi James!

Am 25.08.2015 um 20:44 schrieb James:

If I just unmerge grub and emerge grub-static, is that the
best way to prevent grub-2 from ever being installed?


If you want to keep your good old sys-boot/grub:0, just put exactly that 
into your world file, including with the slot-version (the :0 at the 
end). At least in the main portage tree, grub-2 uses slot 2, whereas 
grub-1 stays in slot 0.


Alternatively you could put something like =sys-boot/grub-2 or even 
sys-boot/grub:2 into package.mask.


HTH,
--Flo

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping grub 1

2015-08-25 Thread Fernando Rodriguez 
On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:01:48 PM Florian Gamböck wrote:
 Hi James!
 
 Am 25.08.2015 um 20:44 schrieb James:
  If I just unmerge grub and emerge grub-static, is that the
  best way to prevent grub-2 from ever being installed?
 
 If you want to keep your good old sys-boot/grub:0, just put exactly that 
 into your world file, including with the slot-version (the :0 at the 
 end). At least in the main portage tree, grub-2 uses slot 2, whereas 
 grub-1 stays in slot 0.
 
 Alternatively you could put something like =sys-boot/grub-2 or even 
 sys-boot/grub:2 into package.mask.
 
 HTH,
 --Flo

And since you can install both it may be a good idea to get legacy grub 
working before unmerging grub2. If something goes wrong you just need to 
chroot and run grub2-install (or whatever it's called).

The grub-static package is most useful for amd64 systems without a 32-bit 
ncurses. I believe it ships a prebuilt ncurses static library.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping grub 1

2015-08-25 Thread Alan McKinnon 
On 25/08/2015 20:44, James wrote:
 Hello,
 
 
 So on one particular (openrc) system, I have no interest in grub-2
 or any other bootloaders. I see grub is both grub 1 and grub 2.
 
 If I just unmerge grub and emerge grub-static, is that the
 best way to prevent grub-2 from ever being installed?
 Other caveats to worry about?
 
 
 TIA,
 James
 
 


Add to package.mask:

sys-boot/grub:2

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] keeping grub 1

2015-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:44:17 + (UTC), James wrote:

 If I just unmerge grub and emerge grub-static, is that the
 best way to prevent grub-2 from ever being installed?
 Other caveats to worry about?

emerge -n sys-boot/grub:0 and make sure no other grub entries appear in
@world


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Neil Bothwick

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