[Mageia-dev] Grub2 vs. Grub Legacy in M3

Mon Feb 4 20:18:37 CET 2013

On 2013-02-04 14:27 (GMT) Barry Jackson composed:
+
+> Felix Miata wrote:
+
+>> Nice in theory, but the root device is off by -1. Default menu.lst
+>> cmdline includes root=LABEL=22cauldrn instead of UUID or device name,
+>> which is apparently disregarded by grub 2.
+
+> Maybe a limitation of legacy_kernel.
+> Normally to use labels in grub2 the 'search' command is used without any
+> reference to the device assignment.
+> Like:-
+
+> menuentry 'Mageia-2 multiboot' {
+> search --no-floppy --label --set=root mageia-2
+> multiboot /boot/grub2/i386-pc/core.img
+> }
+
+>> menuentry 'Cauldron defkernel' {
+>>    legacy_kernel   '(hd0,22)/boot/vmlinuz' '(hd0,21)/boot/vmlinuz'
+>> 'root=LABEL=22cauldrn' 'splash=verbose' 'noresume' 'video=1152x864'
+>> 'vga=794' '3' ''
+>>    legacy_initrd '(hd0,22)/boot/initrd' '(hd0,21)/boot/initrd'
+>> }
+
+>> It works when I s/hd0,21/hd0,22/g.
+
+> That syntax is apparently correct, as legacy_kernel needs to know what
+> the original legacy command was.
+> I have tested here in a clean mga3 installation and it works for me.
+
+> Please re-test and if it fails again please attach the original menu.lst
+> and the resulting grub.cfg along with any error messages.
+
+It's entirely unclear what "re-test" here means, unless maybe by 
+incorporating your immediately preceding thread response. Current behavior of 
+Grub2 menu overall and first grub.cfg stanza is acceptable having used/using 
+the following:
+
+http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/menu.lst.04-cldrn-gx27b.txt
+
+http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/etc-default-grub-cldrn-gx27b.txt
+
+http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/grub.cfg.06-cldrn-gx27b.txt
+
+Only error message I recall is about vga= from Grub2 before first kernel/init 
+messages appear.
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