On 02/27/2015 01:09 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: >> On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:57, Matti Nykyri <matti.nyk...@iki.fi> wrote: >> >> Make a partition for gentoo and format it. Untar stage3 and portage snapshot >> to it (snapshot is faster than rsync). Chroot. Emerge portage and grub. I >> copied kernel from my old system to /boot. If you don't have this build a >> new one. Run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (mkdir if it doesn't >> exists. (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2) > Manually modify grub.cfg so that the root drive will match the setup of the > new system. (Something like this /dev/sdb2 -> /dev/sda2 and hd1,2 -> hd0,2)
If you're using grub2, you should not be manually editing grub.cfg, just /etc/default/grub and running grub2-mkconfig. The computer I'm on right now boots with EFI, and I've never had to manually touch grub.cfg. Alec
