On 2019-01-18, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/17/19 2:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Apparently they're going to try to pry grub-0.97 from my cold dead >> fingers... >> >> Is there any documentation on how to do a basic minimal grub:2 >> install? >> >> I really don't want any of the auto-magical, devs know better than I >> do what I want, os-probing, hide all the details from the stupid user, >> config file generator stuff installed. I just want the bare minimum >> required to boot using a hand-edited grub.conf file. >> >> There doesn't seem to be a USE flag... > > As someone else mentioned you can mask grub-mkconfig. I didn't bother, > it isn't run automatically.
I should have known that on Gentoo it wouldn't be. I ought to think about starting to switch to grub2. On one of my simpler installs, I may try out the chainloading from grub to grub2 scheme documented at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Migration I often need to install grub2 in a partition instead of the MBR, and these are good references. https://github.com/alberthdev/alberthdev-misc/wiki/Installing-GRUB2-to-a-Partition https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Install_to_partition_or_partitionless_disk The Arch wiki also has some good tips on manually creating a grub2 config file: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Custom_grub.cfg [If you can't find what you're looking for on the Gentoo web site, the Arch linux site is an excellent resource. I've learned to ignore Google hits that point to Ubuntu forums...]
