For quite a while now, every time I've reinstalled a large batch of packages, such as in an emerge -e system, I've finished up with an unbootable system. I have /boot on /dev/hda1 and grub is also installed on that partition (I use Partition Magic to choose the partition to boot from).
The problem is that, having found problems with the 64-bit grub, I long ago got used to installing the 32-bit version, with "emerge --usepkg grub-static". That works fine, but because grub is in the world file it gets included in the wholesale reinstallation - but without the --usepkg parameter. Today I finally traced the problem to emerging grub-static without the --usepkg parameter to emerge. Is this a bug worth reporting? I've fixed it pro tem (I hope) by deleting grub from /var/lib/portage/world. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93 -- [email protected] mailing list
