[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, James wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > >> I'd like to to install winusb, and it appears to depend on grub-2: >> $ sudo emerge -av winusb > > Ok, so I've never used winusb, so excuse me for asking a few dumb > questions here. Even after

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2016 16:21:28 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> >> Thanks. That's good to know -- I'll definitely set things up so I'm >> >> not running winusb as root. >> > >> > Well, you could always reinstall grub-0 before

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 May 2016 16:21:28 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Thanks. That's good to know -- I'll definitely set things up so I'm > >> not running winusb as root. > > > > Well, you could always reinstall grub-0 before rebooting, to make > > sure. > > I just created a systemsrescuecd

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread James
Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > I'd like to to install winusb, and it appears to depend on grub-2: > $ sudo emerge -av winusb Ok, so I've never used winusb, so excuse me for asking a few dumb questions here. Even after reading a bit and searching around, I have these dumb questions. I did

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, Peter Humphrey wrote: It is entirely possible that winusb might call grub2-install with your USB disk as a target. That would also be fairly safe. >>> >>> And in fact, it does exactly that: >>> >>> # Grub >>> echo "Installing grub..." >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 06 May 2016 14:41:57 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > [...] > > >>> Yes, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: [...] >>> Yes, I know not to run grub2-install (and I trust that winusb will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Peter Humphrey >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 May 2016 19:45:53 Mike Gilbert wrote: On Thu, May 5,

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Thursday 05 May 2016 19:45:53 Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Grant Edwards >>> wrote: [...] Since