Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-17 Thread Michael
You could chroot from a liveUSB or better your old hdd and check you have /etc /root and /home/dale in place and the contents and access rights have been copied over correctly - rsync should do this fast enough. Before you start nuking things indiscriminately please note your /etc/fstab is now

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-17 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 16 March 2025 11:40:14 Greenwich Mean Time you wrote: >> On Sunday, 16 March 2025 09:58:42 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >>> Dale wrote: Well, this got interesting. I booted the spinning rust drive again and redone the /boot from the old system. I rebuilt t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-17 Thread Michael
On Monday, 17 March 2025 02:34:47 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2025-03-16, Michael wrote: > >> Ugh! I didn't provide a comprehensive answer - sorry. All this MBR > >> nostalgia I've been trying to forget. LOL! > >> > >> If you are installing GRUB on a GPT disk,

[gentoo-user] 66, an alternative to openrc/systemd: Is it needed?

2025-03-17 Thread Pramod V U
I'd like to disclaim beforehand that THIS ISN'T A PRO-SYSTEMD/ANTI-SYSTEMD PROJECT; IT'S JUST ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE obarun is an arch-based distro, and it has an init system named 66. This init system is also available on Void linux. For questionable reasons it isn't on Artix and Devuan. It is jus

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-03-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > You /can/ use an embedded block list to install legacy BIOS boot mode > grub using an MBR table without a BIOS Boot Partition, but don't do > it. [,,,] Oops, I meant to say "legacy BIOS boot mode grub using a GPT partition table..." > It requires manual int