On Thu, 2012-06-28 at 20:36 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> It appears that grub2 is coming soon. > >> grub 2.00 has been released! > >> > >> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ > >> > >> > > > > > > I wasn't expecting it to be that soon. I guess it will hit the tree > > pretty soon then. Well, we all need to think about the goods and bads > > of upgrading or staying with the old. I'm thinking about using the new > > one pretty soon. Heck, they ticked me off pretty bad with the /usr and > > init thingy so I may as well jump off the cliff I was pushed up to. :/ > > > > 1/4 of the way down, all is good so far. 1/2 way down and all is good > > so far. 3/4 way down and all is good so far. I'm worried about that > > sudden stop now. O_O > > > > Dale > > *shuffles his feet* > > I've started using genkernel. Once I discovered I can specify my own > kernel configuration, it got a lot less ugly to me. The initramfs > thing hasn't gotten in my way...yet. And it helped me recover an > install process once so far, so I can't complain _to_ much. My only > complaint thus far is its terrible error reporting. And since I'm > using an initramfs, I went ahead and dropped my / on top of a raid5 > volume. > > But even before I started using genkernel...grub2 sounded like a good > thing. One of the previous threads in here described how you assemble > its configuration, and it made a *lot* of sense, from an architectural > standpoint. > >
genkernel error reporting can be improved no end by editing the script (/usr/share/genkernel/defaults/linuxrc) and sprinkling with echo, good_msg and bad_msg statements ... Unfortunately it cant log to a file (or at least I have not tried) so sleep statements may help so you read the messages. Copy the above script to a new name and run genkernel as "genkernel --color --linuxrc=/usr/share/genkernel/defaults/linuxrc.uswsusp --initramfs-overlay=/var/lib/genkernel/overlay --lvm --menuconfig all " The overlay is a some extra stuff I wanted in the initramfs for suspend to disk. BillK BillK
