On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 01:51:34PM -0400, fsmithred wrote: > On 08/28/2017 10:55 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Grub seems a lot more complicated now than it used to be a few years > > ago when I last upgraded Debian from one release to another. > > > > My usual procedure is to copy the system to new partitions (adjusting > > the size according to what I actually guess I might need), > > editig the copied /etc/fstab, making sure the old and new systems boot > > properly and mount the right partitions, and then upgrading the new > > one. > > Copy the system to the new partition. > Edit fstab in the new partition. > Boot into the new partition from grub command line. > Type 'c' at the boot menu to get a grub prompt. > Example: (Edit as needed. Drives count from zero, partitions count from one.) > set root=(hd0,msdos3) > linux /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda3 > initrd /initrd.img > boot > > Then when you're in the new system, run > grub-install /dev/sda > update-grub > > This will put the system on the new partition in charge of booting and > will generat a new menu. It should also make a boot entry for the > old system.
Do I understand correctly that grub-install will scan my only hard drive looking for (at least) bootable Linux systems? And that as a result, running grub-install on the old system will detect both and create a grub menu that contains both? (of course, using the grub files on the old system, which I'd better not delete if I still want to boot) -- hendrik > > fsmithred > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
