On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:05:25 -0500, Dale wrote: > It appears that grub2 is coming soon. Thread on -dev said a couple > months or so till it hits the tree, keyworded and/or masked I'm sure. I > guess it is about time to jump off the cliff and give this a try.
If GRUB legacy is working for you, I see no need to change. I put GRUB 2 on new installs but haven't seen any reason to switch over existing systems. On the other hand, if you want to learn more about it, go for it! I > My first question is, how hard is this to change from old grub to > grub2? The same as installing GRUB 2 from scratch. I would waste time trying to have both installed (I'm not sure if that's even supported any more) as it's easy enough to reinstall legacy from a live CD if you have to, but keep your menu.lst. > I must confess tho, I'm a > hoarder of kernels. LOL I generally have several versions of them on > here. Is there a way for it to only see say the last 3 versions or so? > I only have three right now but I cleaned out all the non-init kernels a > while back. Given time, I may have a dozen or so. I would rather not > have that many lines on the grub screen when booting. You could edit the script that searches for an adds Linux kernels, or disable it. I use the custom script to add my own entries at the top of the menu and let the standard 10_linux script add all detected kernel below. It lists them most recent first, so any excess of kernels falls off the bottom of the screen :) > Also, will it know what init thingy image to connect the kernels too? I > name my kernels with the version and name the init thingy with a similar > name. Looks someting like this: > > root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-3.* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4740064 May 16 20:25 /boot/bzImage-3.3.5-2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4758496 May 23 13:09 /boot/bzImage-3.4.0-1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4758816 Jun 14 09:00 /boot/bzImage-3.4.2.r1-1 > root@fireball / # ls -al /boot/initramfs-3.* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3560934 May 12 05:03 /boot/initramfs-3.3.5-1.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3560423 May 23 13:10 /boot/initramfs-3.4.0.img > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3561170 Jun 14 09:05 /boot/initramfs-3.4.2.img That should work, although I do not use a separate initramfs file so I haven't tried it. > There are times when I may have more than one kernel but only one init > thingy tho. So far, one init thingy will work with any kernel of that > version. I have not tried mixing tho. Use symlinks, or a custom menu. > Also, how much disk space does grub take up on /boot? Mine is on a > separate partition and I hope it is large enough. % df /boot Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 ext2 482M 406M 51M 89% /boot However, 380MB of that is a System Rescue CD ISO, one of the nice things about GRUB 2 is that you can boot straight fro the ISO, no need to go hunting for a CD when you need a live boot (unless the reaso you need a live boot is that you screwed up GRUB :) % du /boot/grub2 1.5M /boot/grub2 A GRUB legacy box here gives % du /boot/grub 990K /boot/grub so not much difference. > Miss the compile output? Hint: > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" This is redundant now, portage has gone back to the old method of spamming your screen with compiler output when using --jobs 1. -- Neil Bothwick Home is where you hang your @.
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