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I suspect there is something slightly +</I>>><i> unusual in your menu.lst that it can't handle, so we will need both +</I>>><i> menu.lst and the output .cfg, plus any error messages that may be useful. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> First I did urpmi --auto-update, which raised grub2 from -16 to -17. The +</I>><i> new grub.cfg generated by grub2-menulst2cfg is identical to the last one +</I>><i> it made: <A HREF="http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/grub.cfg.05-cldrn-gx27b.txt">http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/grub.cfg.05-cldrn-gx27b.txt</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The two links above are unchanged. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Selecting the first stanza, as before, causes: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> "... +</I>><i> doing fast boot +</I>><i> mkdir: cannot create directory '/run': File exists +</I>><i> ... +</I>><i> udevd[99]: could not find module by name='e1000' +</I>><i> WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, ... +</I>><i> ...resume device not found (ignoring) +</I>><i> Waiting for device /dev/root to appear...Could not find /dev/root ... +</I>><i> Want me to fall back to /dev/by-id-yada-part21." +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The root device is in fact /dev/by-id-yada-part22. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Since your comments earlier I have decided to split out the theme into a +</I>>><i> separate package, so that a minimal installation using grub2 will not +</I>>><i> pull in the font, image etc. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> I have pushed a new version that Suggests: os-prober in the meantime. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> urpme os-prober didn't try to remove grub2 this time. :-) +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> So, in future an install of grub2 with --no-suggests will be without a +</I>>><i> theme or os-prober, and perform as per the modifications I suggested +</I>>><i> above. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> Thanks for your constructive comments Felix, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> :-) +</I> +Hi Felix, +The new grub2 package is pushed, with the theme split out from the main +package which is a Suggest like os-prober. +Please remove the commented THEME line in your /etc/default/grub before +updating, as this is now handled by filetriggers and will possibly upset +things - I had not considered that possibility (commented line) and may +need to look again at how that is handled. +Please see the updated README.Mageia in the package. + +I will now hopefully have time to report your grub2-menulst2cfg issue ;) + +Barry +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="022455.html">[Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3 +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="022354.html">[Mageia-dev] freeze push: x11-driver-input-synaptics-1.6.3 +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#22566">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#22566">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#22566">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#22566">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |