Hi, Michael. On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:55:05PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/06/11 19:42, Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> >> If we have some grub-legacy and some grub2 installs, > > why would you do that? > Eventually, grub2 will be all that's available from portage. At that > point, I can either, > 1) Install grub2 on some machines. > 2) Maintain grub-legacy (and install media) myself. > > have a look at the link i posted. if you really want to keep it simple, > > grub2 can be configured with a single grub.cfg file. > How much work would it be for you to, > * Learn grub2 > * Travel to my office here in Baltimore > * Test it on all combinations of hardware that we currently run > * Document the standard config and any special cases > * Upgrade a bunch of my servers at 4am? > If you still think it's "not much" then I'd be happy to have you do it > while I drink margaritas. Why don't you upgrade to lilo instead? It's got a single configuration file which is short and relatively simple, and it just works. My lilo.conf has 50 non-comment/space lines, and that includes 8 kernel versions. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
