Re: Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/24/2011 05:38 PM, g wrote: if i am following what you are wanting, the last link is what you want. As it turns out, the simplest example worked well enough for me to boot into a current kernel with an initrd line, run grub2-mkconfig and get the newest two kernels added properly. (They

Re: Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-24 Thread g
On 12/25/2011 03:14 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/24/2011 06:59 PM, g wrote: >> do not know it they will help you anymore, but they look interesting. ;) > > Thank you. I'm hoping not to need them, but I'll hang onto this JIC. -=- welcome. i have a bunch of 'jic', most, that i stated back in 80's

Re: Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/24/2011 06:59 PM, g wrote: do not know it they will help you anymore, but they look interesting. ;) Thank you. I'm hoping not to need them, but I'll hang onto this JIC. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedora

Re: Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-24 Thread g
joe zeff, i just now pick up 2 more 'grub2' links you might be interested in. they where just now posted to thread; Grub2 upgrade issue by; Michael D. Setzer replied by; T.C. Hollingsworth You'll need to rewrite them for GRUB2. Arch Linux has an good overview of writing custom GR

Re: Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-24 Thread g
On 12/25/2011 01:51 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/24/2011 05:38 PM, g wrote: >> if i am following what you are wanting, the last link is what you want. > > As it turns out, the simplest example worked well enough for me to boot > into a current kernel with an initrd line, run grub2-mkconfig and get

Re: Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-24 Thread g
On 12/25/2011 12:12 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/24/2011 03:37 PM, g wrote: >> give this a try; >> >>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut > > The command lines I'd seen before were something more complex, using > uname -r to put the right version into place, but a little copy/paste > works to

Re: Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/24/2011 03:37 PM, g wrote: give this a try; http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut The command lines I'd seen before were something more complex, using uname -r to put the right version into place, but a little copy/paste works too. I don't know why it is, but I can never find things

Re: Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-24 Thread g
On 12/24/2011 09:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: <> > I know that all I need to do is use dracut to create the proper > initramfs, then edit grub.cfg, adding the initrd line to the appropriate > place, but I'm having a bit of trouble locating the proper command line > for dracut. -=- give this a try;