On Fri, Jun 29 2012, Todd Goodman wrote: > * Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> [120629 14:53]: >> Now that grub is slotted (slot:2 is grub2; slot:0 is legacy grub), >> an update world will merge grub-2.00 along side my current >> grub-0.97-r12. >> >> Am I correct in believing that, if I *do* the emerge but *not* do >> anything else with grub, I will continue to use legacy grub (-0.97-r12) >> whenever I boot? >> >> I realize I can add >> sys-boot/grub:2 >> to package.mask >> >> thanks, >> allan > > I believe that's the case. Until you run grub2-install you'll still run > your old grub 0.92-r12. > > Make sure you do the step mentioned in the emerge output though and get > grub:0 in your world file or else the next emerge --depclean will remove > your grub-0.97-r12.
Thanks for the heads-up. allan