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

Thu Feb 7 00:44:49 CET 2013

On 05/02/13 00:52, Felix Miata wrote:
+> 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,
+>
+> :-)
+
+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
+