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

Tue Feb 5 01:52:18 CET 2013

On 2013-02-04 20:27 (GMT) Barry Jackson composed:
+
+> Felix Miata wrote:
+
+>> 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
+
+>> Only error message I recall is about vga= from Grub2 before first
+>> kernel/init messages appear.
+
+> I was referring to re-testing the use of grub2-menulst2cfg again, since
+> it works perfectly here.
+
+> If you truly get errors from the grub.cfg produced by it then I would
+> like to report this upstream. I suspect there is something slightly
+> unusual in your menu.lst that it can't handle, so we will need both
+> menu.lst and the output .cfg, plus any error messages that may be useful.
+
+First I did urpmi --auto-update, which raised grub2 from -16 to -17. The new 
+grub.cfg generated by grub2-menulst2cfg is identical to the last one it made: 
+http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/Mdv/grub.cfg.05-cldrn-gx27b.txt
+
+The two links above are unchanged.
+
+Selecting the first stanza, as before, causes:
+
+"...
+doing fast boot
+mkdir: cannot create directory '/run': File exists
+...
+udevd[99]: could not find module by name='e1000'
+WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, ...
+...resume device not found (ignoring)
+Waiting for device /dev/root to appear...Could not find /dev/root ...
+Want me to fall back to /dev/by-id-yada-part21."
+
+The root device is in fact /dev/by-id-yada-part22.
+
+> Since your comments earlier I have decided to split out the theme into a
+> separate package, so that a minimal installation using grub2 will not
+> pull in the font, image etc.
+
+> I have pushed a new version that Suggests: os-prober in the meantime.
+
+urpme os-prober didn't try to remove grub2 this time. :-)
+
+> So, in future an install of grub2 with --no-suggests will be without a
+> theme or os-prober, and perform as per the modifications I suggested above.
+
+> Thanks for your constructive comments Felix,
+
+:-)
+-- 
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+
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+
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