On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:05:41 +0000 Peter Duffy <pe...@pwduffy.org.uk> wrote:
> I've got an old box running CentOS 6.2 and Windows 7. Without going > into details, this box is vital and I use it every day. Finally I > decided that I had to bite the bullet and upgrade the linux system, > and I decided to go for chimaera. > ....snip.. > > Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts and comments (other than why > the hell am I still running CentOS 6.2 on this box), before I start > rummaging through the grub changelogs. Apologies for the length of > this and also if I've missed something obvious. The above is a heavily > boiled-down summary of about a fortnight of stress and lost sleep. At some stage grub changed (during Beowulf) from holding a number of older 'kernels' to just two (current and prior), which is the case with Chimaera . I'm wondering if that may be a contributing factor. FWIW, I gave up dual booting over a decade+ ago when I had surfeit of old hardware to play around with. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
