On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:54:56AM EST, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > I've just tried to install Grub2 to my spare Lenny installation. I am > baffled (not to say disappointed) by the results: > > 1. -- kernel automagic configuration hasn't been copied over from the > legacy menu.lst to the new grub.cfg
Is the os-prober package installed? [..] > 4. -- it didn't pick up the right partitions of my installed systems, > so I had to manually edit grub.cfg, changing various "set root=(hd0,1)" > into "set root=(hd0,2)" and the like. And this was on a pretty simple > setup: only a single hard drive, with just four primary partitions > (Swap, Lenny, LennySpare, and Home). The documentation tells you not to do that, but rather edit the 'source' files in /etc/grub.d and run update-grub. [..] > My question is: will Lenny still be able to update its list of kernels > automagically with all its "automagic" gone? Probably. I don't like the idea of grub building its .cfg file from bits and pieces of grub-legacy, or lilo stuff that may live on other partitions. So, I let it happen once to build grub.cfg and copied all the stanzas from other systems to /etc/grub.d/40_custom, modified them to my liking, deactivated os-prober by making the script in /etc/grub.d/ '-x', and ran update-grub. [..] CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
