On 2013-02-04 20:27 (GMT) Barry Jackson composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/menu.lst.04-cldrn-gx27b.txt
http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/etc-default-grub-cldrn-gx27b.txt
Only error message I recall is about vga= from Grub2 before first kernel/init messages appear.
I was referring to re-testing the use of grub2-menulst2cfg again, since it works perfectly here.
If you truly get errors from the grub.cfg produced by it then I would like to report this upstream. I suspect there is something slightly unusual in your menu.lst that it can't handle, so we will need both menu.lst and the output .cfg, plus any error messages that may be useful.
First I did urpmi --auto-update, which raised grub2 from -16 to -17. The new grub.cfg generated by grub2-menulst2cfg is identical to the last one it made: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/grub.cfg.05-cldrn-gx27b.txt
The two links above are unchanged. Selecting the first stanza, as before, causes: "... doing fast boot mkdir: cannot create directory '/run': File exists ... udevd[99]: could not find module by name='e1000' WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, ... ...resume device not found (ignoring) Waiting for device /dev/root to appear...Could not find /dev/root ... Want me to fall back to /dev/by-id-yada-part21." The root device is in fact /dev/by-id-yada-part22.
Since your comments earlier I have decided to split out the theme into a separate package, so that a minimal installation using grub2 will not pull in the font, image etc.
I have pushed a new version that Suggests: os-prober in the meantime.
urpme os-prober didn't try to remove grub2 this time. :-)
So, in future an install of grub2 with --no-suggests will be without a theme or os-prober, and perform as per the modifications I suggested above.
Thanks for your constructive comments Felix,
:-) -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
