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On 05.07.2012 06:26, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Jeroen Roovers
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:02:28 -0400 Mike Gilbert
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That is exactly what Doug (cardoe) proposed, and he is working
>>> on the docs fo
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:02:28 -0400
> Mike Gilbert wrote:
>
>> That is exactly what Doug (cardoe) proposed, and he is working on the
>> docs for that.
>>
>
> Ah yes, it's been a long-winded thread. :)
>
>
> jer
>
I got a little busier th
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:02:28 -0400
Mike Gilbert wrote:
> That is exactly what Doug (cardoe) proposed, and he is working on the
> docs for that.
>
Ah yes, it's been a long-winded thread. :)
jer
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:15:23 -0400
> Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert
>> wrote:
>> > 3. grub2-install calls grub2-bios-setup which installs boot.img into
>> > the MBR and embeds core.img into the sector
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:15:23 -0400
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert
> wrote:
> > 3. grub2-install calls grub2-bios-setup which installs boot.img into
> > the MBR and embeds core.img into the sectors immediately after the
> > MBR.
>
> Ok, that isn't all that un
On 06/29/2012 05:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>> On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
> GRUB2 does away with the conven
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
special B
On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>>> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
>>> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it
>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> 3. grub2-install calls grub2-bios-setup which installs boot.img into
>> the MBR and embeds core.img into the sectors immediately after the
>> MBR.
>
> Ok, that isn't all that unlike grub
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> 3. grub2-install calls grub2-bios-setup which installs boot.img into
> the MBR and embeds core.img into the sectors immediately after the
> MBR.
Ok, that isn't all that unlike grub1 - that is what stage1.5 is. It
just sounds like these aren'
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
>> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it
>> stores the equivalent of the stage2 bootcode. T
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> It does copy all of the images to /boot so that the grub shell can be
>> used to install an MBR image. grub:2 no longer has an interactive
>> shell and grub2-install must be used. Theref
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it
> stores the equivalent of the stage2 bootcode. That is similar to
> FreeBSD's bootloader.
Now, that should
On 06/29/2012 02:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> It does copy all of the images to /boot so that the grub shell can be
>> used to install an MBR image. grub:2 no longer has an interactive
>> shell and grub2-install must be used. Therefore, copyi
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> It does copy all of the images to /boot so that the grub shell can be
> used to install an MBR image. grub:2 no longer has an interactive
> shell and grub2-install must be used. Therefore, copying files to
> /boot in the ebuild is completely p
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, grub:0 only half-way updates itself; there is a
>> large ewarn telling the user that they must take action to install the
>> new version in the MBR. This seems a b
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> As far as I can tell, grub:0 only half-way updates itself; there is a
> large ewarn telling the user that they must take action to install the
> new version in the MBR. This seems a bit broken to me.
In what way. As far as I can tell I have
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 29 June 2012 01:59:37 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > On Monday 25 June 2012 00:15:59 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> >> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I w
On Friday 29 June 2012 01:59:37 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 25 June 2012 00:15:59 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
> >> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly aft
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>
> I don't really see a way to reliably call grub2-install from the
> ebuild, and I think this would be a bit unfriendly to the user anyway.
>
Please don't. We don't auto-install grub during the initial install,
so we have NO idea how users h
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2012 00:15:59 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
>> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it hits the tree.
>> I don't do much work on base system
On Monday 25 June 2012 00:15:59 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it hits the tree.
> I don't do much work on base system packages, so I would like some
> advice on how to make this a
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:15:59 -0400
> Mike Gilbert wrote:
>
>> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
>> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it hits the
>> tree. I don't do much work on base s
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:15:59 -0400
Mike Gilbert wrote:
> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it hits the
> tree. I don't do much work on base system packages, so I would like
> some advice on how to make t
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Since Grub Legacy and Grub 2 are slotted, Portage won't remove the
> older version. Even if it removes the older one, everything necessary
> is installed into /boot and the MBR already.
Portage will remove the older slot the next time the
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it hits the tree.
> I don't do much work on base system packages, so I would like some
> advice on how to make thi
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 01:35:19 -0400
Richard Yao wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 12:15 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I
> > would like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it
> > hits the tree. I don't do much work on base system packa
Mike Gilbert writes:
> My main concern is that many people probably have sys-boot/grub in
> @world.
How about a news item advising people to put sys-boot/grub:0 in their
world file to retain grub:0?
> If grub:2 is made visible, portage will install it, and will remove
> grub-0.97 on the next d
On 06/25/2012 12:15 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
> like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it hits the tree.
> I don't do much work on base system packages, so I would like some
> advice on how to make this as smooth
An official release of grub-2.00 should be coming pretty soon. I would
like to keyword this for ~amd64 and ~x86 shortly after it hits the tree.
I don't do much work on base system packages, so I would like some
advice on how to make this as smooth as possible.
My main concern is that many people p
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