On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:05 PM, William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au>wrote:
> On 24/11/13 10:06, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been searching the web for help on this but no luck. > > I have just upgraded from grub legacy to grub2. Followed the gentoo docs > > and grub2 will not boot. It hangs in the beginning with the messages: > > > > Loading Linux 3.10.17-gentoo ... > > Loading initial ramdisk ... > > > > Here is the section I try to run on my grub.conf > > > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 dolvm > > initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.10.17-gentoo > > > > I used genkernel to create the initramfs using the options: --lvm > > --disklabel --firmware --no-ramdisk-modules. The system booted using the > > old grub legacy. > > > > I would be also interested in information on how to completely wipe out > > grub2 from my system and go back to grub legacy. > > > > Thank you for your help. > > > > -- > > Valmor > > > > sadly most of my systems didnt work first time either though I am slowly > working through the issues. > > Did you add the dolvm stuff to /etc/default/grub? > No I have not touched any of the grub files. On my kernel boot line above I do use dolvm. Will check on that though. > > Mine is (one liner): > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX='memmap=1M\$157M dolvm i915.modeset=1 > enable_mtrr_cleanup=1 zcache resume=/dev/sdb1' > Thanks. -- Valmor > > Did you get any errors with either of: > > grub2-install /dev/sda > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > Nope. No errors. All clean. > > I would also really wish that there was a simple grub and complex grub2 > for the masochists rather than just torturing everyone :) > > BillK > > > >
