Re: grub -18 *may* break your system

2013-10-26 Thread Robert Millan
On 01/09/2013 22:40, Robert Millan wrote: > Steven Chamberlain: >> On 01/09/13 18:04, Robert Millan wrote: >>> [...] maybe we should move the modules to /boot like >>> upstream does? And make /lib/modules a symlink or something. >> >> Yes I think so. It already works with grub2 (it resolves the sy

Re: grub -18 *may* break your system

2013-09-01 Thread Robert Millan
Steven Chamberlain: > On 01/09/13 18:04, Robert Millan wrote: >> [...] maybe we should move the modules to /boot like >> upstream does? And make /lib/modules a symlink or something. > > Yes I think so. It already works with grub2 (it resolves the symlink > for paths used in grub.cfg), and it seem

Re: grub -18 *may* break your system

2013-09-01 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 01/09/13 18:04, Robert Millan wrote: > [...] maybe we should move the modules to /boot like > upstream does? And make /lib/modules a symlink or something. Yes I think so. It already works with grub2 (it resolves the symlink for paths used in grub.cfg), and it seems justified by the FHS too: h

Re: grub -18 *may* break your system

2013-09-01 Thread Robert Millan
Steven Chamberlain: > A few times I've had GRUB unable to boot from ZFS for various reasons. > Now I prefer to make /boot a separate partition, and also move > /lib/modules into /boot/, making it a symlink to there. That way > everything needed to boot the kernel is on plain UFS, but everything >

Re: grub -18 *may* break your system

2013-08-31 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 31/08/13 21:45, Christoph Egger wrote: > Since I upgraded grub to -18 (and did a lot of other things without > rebooting) I get into the rescue mode "checksum verification failed" > -- same error for insmod normal. *Might* also be I broke my ZFS > root. I'll now try recover my notebook. A

grub -18 *may* break your system

2013-08-31 Thread Christoph Egger
hi! Since I upgraded grub to -18 (and did a lot of other things without rebooting) I get into the rescue mode "checksum verification failed" -- same error for insmod normal. *Might* also be I broke my ZFS root. I'll now try recover my notebook. Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-