Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-22 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 9/21/13 1:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: I wasn't able to reproduce this in qemu. It is possible that GRUB's graphical terminal driver has some issues with VMWare. However, have a Gentoo box at work that runs GRUB2 on VMWare ESX, and I don't recall having any display issues on the console.

[gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. Title: GRUB2 migration Author: Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2013-09-22 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. Great news! Thanks for working on this, and it basically works (chainloaded for now, see below) on my x86 system. Some general

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. Great news! Thanks for working on this, and it

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/2013 11:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. The FAQ / Known Problems / Gotchas section of the guide is still empty. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/2013 11:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review.

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 09/21/2013 02:18 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. The grub postinst message links to http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start instead - and that wiki page has a link to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub2-migration.xml . IMHO it would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: GRUB2 migration

2013-09-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news item to hopefully prevent any