Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick:
> > On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:53:28 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > > If you don't, the stage1 in your MBR may not work with the
> > > > stage1.5 and stage2 in /boot. This happened with a recent GRUB
> > > > update.
> > >
> > > Not to me.
> >
> > Aha, the old "works for me" defence :)
>
> No, it's the "couldn't happen to me because my /boot is mounted ro"
> defense.
I wouldn't rely on this. My boot wasn't mounted at all, but the ebuild
mounted it and overwrote some files. It could just as easily remount
a /boot that had been ro. Using DONT_MOUNT_BOOT="yes" in make.conf
should avoid it for good.
> BTW: One doesn't really need to keep grub installed after writing the
> MBR. Just unmerge it and your /boot and/or MBR are save.
True. But I wanted the new grub, just wanted to install it to my /boot
manually.
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