Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-28 Thread Patrick McLean
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:56:08 + Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 11:03 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund > > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 15:21 -0400, Tom H

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-28 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 11:03 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 15:21 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > > > > > > > > but it looks like, unlike for grub-legacy, you need a grub config file > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 15:21 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> but it looks like, unlike for grub-legacy, you need a grub config file >> ("/boot/grub{,2}/grub.cfg") to exist. > > That is reasonable, to create a new

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-19 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 05:20:09PM +, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > We still use grub-1 and I really like the automatic generation of new grub > menu entries using genkernel --bootloader=grub, does this work with > grub2 as well? Yes, grub2 is supported by Genkernel. You just have to touch or

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-19 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 15:21 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Joakim Tjernlund > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2016-10-18 at 12:45 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt > > > wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > On Tue, 2016-10-18 at 12:45 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: >>> On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote: You can use exactly the same text

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-18 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
On Tue, 2016-10-18 at 12:45 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > > > > On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote: > > > > > > > > > You can use exactly the same text in 40_grub that you'd use in > > > grub.cfg and have the latter generated. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:54 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can use exactly the same text in 40_grub that you'd use in >> grub.cfg and have the latter generated. > > That's a useful tit-bit .. thanks! You're welcome. I doubt that the

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-12 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:42:43AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > I was sharing what I do because I've overwritten a manually-edited > grub.cfg by running grub-mkconfig/grub2-mkconfig/update-grub (re > grub2-mkconfig, I use grub-mkconfig on Gentoo because I set > "-multislot") more than once - and I know

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-11 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 11/10/16 15:42, Tom H wrote [excerpted]: > I was sharing what I do because I've overwritten a manually-edited > grub.cfg by running grub-mkconfig/grub2-mkconfig/update-grub (re > grub2-mkconfig, I use grub-mkconfig on Gentoo because I set > "-multislot") more than once - and I know other

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 12:05 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 03:45:11AM +0100, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> On 09/10/16 00:57, Ben Kohler wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Tom H >> > wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-11 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Oct 8, 2016 10:33 AM, "Tom H" wrote: >> >> Shouldn't "timeout=5", "default=0", "gfxmode=auto", and >> "gfxpayload=keep" be prefixed with "set "? > > Using the set keyword for variable assignments is

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 03:45:11AM +0100, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 09/10/16 00:57, Ben Kohler wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Tom H > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Hubbs > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-08 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 09/10/16 00:57, Ben Kohler wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Tom H > wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Hubbs > > wrote: > > > > You don't have to use

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-08 Thread Ben Kohler
On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Hubbs > wrote: > > > > You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > by hand if you want, and it appears that the syntax is documented in

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-08 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Oct 8, 2016 10:33 AM, "Tom H" wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > I have added an example grub.cfg to the gentoo repository. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > I have added an example grub.cfg to the gentoo repository. > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ec629c23a6e8cf6c18fa51d69ae11932c7ada3cc > > Please feel free to commit any obvious improvements or

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:34 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write /boot/grub/grub.cfg > by hand if you want, and it appears that the syntax is documented in > the grub info pages. If you write "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" by hand and run

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-05 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:09 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:46:29 +1300 > Kent Fredric wrote: > >> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:34:11 -0500 >> William Hubbs wrote: >> >> > You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-04 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:46:29 +1300 Kent Fredric wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:34:11 -0500 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > by hand if you want, and it appears that the syntax is

Re: [gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-04 Thread Kent Fredric
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:34:11 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > You don't have to use grub-mkconfig. You can write /boot/grub/grub.cfg > by hand if you want, and it appears that the syntax is documented in the > grub info pages. > > William Just saying, it would be really nice to

[gentoo-dev] grub-2 configuration

2016-10-04 Thread William Hubbs
I broke the thread, because grub-2 configuration is an interesting topic, but I think it deserves a separate thread from the removal of grub-0 discussion. On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 03:57:25PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:22:12 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: >