On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:01:48 PM Florian Gamböck wrote: > Hi James! > > Am 25.08.2015 um 20:44 schrieb James: > > If I just unmerge grub and emerge grub-static, is that the > > best way to prevent grub-2 from ever being installed? > > If you want to keep your good old sys-boot/grub:0, just put exactly that > into your world file, including with the slot-version (the :0 at the > end). At least in the "main" portage tree, grub-2 uses slot 2, whereas > grub-1 stays in slot 0. > > Alternatively you could put something like >=sys-boot/grub-2 or even > sys-boot/grub:2 into package.mask. > > HTH, > --Flo
And since you can install both it may be a good idea to get legacy grub working before unmerging grub2. If something goes wrong you just need to chroot and run grub2-install (or whatever it's called). The grub-static package is most useful for amd64 systems without a 32-bit ncurses. I believe it ships a prebuilt ncurses static library. -- Fernando Rodriguez
