[gentoo-user] grub-2 update
Hello:: Background:: I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many). Current:: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. No interamfs just a big partition with everything but /boot and /usr/local. /dev/sda3 746G 96G 612G 14% / devtmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 3.2G 1020K 3.2G 1% /run shm 16G 12K 16G 1% /dev/shm cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda1 194M 45M 139M 25% /boot /dev/sda4 962G 121G 792G 14% /usr/local So the upgrade will be trivial or are there caveats. I do not have a good record with grub-2 . James
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update
On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote: Hello:: Background:: I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many). Current:: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. The don't use it, grub:0 still works just fine :-) It looks like he’s going from grub-2.02 to grub-2.02. I don’t think any action is necessary. I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure out how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot loader which bootstraps a boot loader which loads code that loads a kernel. So back to grub:0 for me -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com How complicated is your partitioning? I have always used a single partition for all of my personal machines, and it’s always been a simple process. grub-install --recheck /dev/sda grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg I know that for servers it’s common to have a bunch of partitions to prevent a rogue process from filling up the entire disk and tanking the entire system, but I can’t imagine it’s that much more complex. Alec
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update
On 16/07/2015 21:34, James wrote: Hello:: Background:: I have had many challenges with grub 2, in the past (as have many). Current:: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. No interamfs just a big partition with everything but /boot and /usr/local. /dev/sda3 746G 96G 612G 14% / devtmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 3.2G 1020K 3.2G 1% /run shm 16G 12K 16G 1% /dev/shm cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda1 194M 45M 139M 25% /boot /dev/sda4 962G 121G 792G 14% /usr/local So the upgrade will be trivial or are there caveats. I do not have a good record with grub-2 . The don't use it, grub:0 still works just fine :-) I gave grub-2 a try earlier this week and once again couldn;t figure out how to install that mini-OS that bootstraps a boot loader which bootstraps a boot loader which loads code that loads a kernel. So back to grub:0 for me -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update
On 16-Jul-15 21:34, James wrote: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. No interamfs just a big partition with everything but /boot and /usr/local. /dev/sda3 746G 96G 612G 14% / devtmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /dev tmpfs 3.2G 1020K 3.2G 1% /run shm 16G 12K 16G 1% /dev/shm cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda1 194M 45M 139M 25% /boot /dev/sda4 962G 121G 792G 14% /usr/local So the upgrade will be trivial or are there caveats. I do not have a good record with grub-2 . I have similar setup as you and upgraded grub without any problem. If beta2-r3 worked for you, beta2-r7 will as well. If you did not disable /boot automount, there are no special steps needed. Portage will mount /boot, update grub, and dismound afterwards... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] grub-2 update
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:34:18 + (UTC), James wrote: Current:: Grub-2.02_beta2-r3 wants to upgrade to grub-2.02_beta2-r7 It appears to be marked stable. So if I do this, what will I have to do to keep the system booting. Nothing, I installed r7 on June 26th and the system just kept booting. You can run grub-install if you really want to, but as this is a patch level update to the same version, the MBR code is likely to be the same anyway. -- Neil Bothwick Angular Momentum Makes The World Go 'Round pgpxxBWYgWTAX.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
