Re: grub2 Question

2022-11-01 Thread Felix Miata
Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-11-01 17:37 (UTC-0400): >> Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-10-31 17:17 (UTC-0400): >>> ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc >>> grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms ... > No mention of MBR as the drive is GPT. MBR is impli

Re: grub2 Question

2022-11-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/1/22 14:37, Robert McBroom via users wrote: No mention of MBR as the drive is GPT. Totally UEFI system, four drives three OS. I was suspecting a problem with the boot sector, but on removal of all drives but the one, it boots. Adding the drives one by one to see the point of digression.

Re: grub2 Question

2022-11-01 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 10/31/22 17:26, Felix Miata wrote: Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-10-31 17:17 (UTC-0400): Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not s

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/11/22 08:26, Felix Miata wrote: Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-10-31 17:17 (UTC-0400): Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not su

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Felix Miata
Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-10-31 17:17 (UTC-0400): > Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. > ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc > grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms > because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. > Sec

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:17:35 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc > grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms > because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. An efi install of grub2 needs more info than just a disk drive. Here is my note fr

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/31/22 14:17, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. Secure Boot is turned off

grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Robert McBroom via users
Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. Secure Boot is turned off in the bios. The boot is from UEFI.

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;

Quick dracut/grub2 question

2011-12-24 Thread Joe Zeff
Recently, I learned that you can now boot Fedora through grub2 without an inetrd line. In fact, it will boot quicker. If you do, however, grub2-probe, called from grub2-mkconfig will fail with the message "cannot stat /dev/root" and any new kernel you've installed won't get added to /boot/gru

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/20/2010 06:29 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> The official manual is (fairly recent, AFAIK) >> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/ >> (which is the url of the now MIA grub1 manual). >> > > grub1 is called grub legacy now and doc

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/20/2010 06:29 AM, Tom H wrote: > > The official manual is (fairly recent, AFAIK) > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/ > (which is the url of the now MIA grub1 manual). > grub1 is called grub legacy now and doc for that is at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:02:12 +0100 > Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> What is the supposed advantage of grub2 over grub? > > As near as I can tell grub2 is a classic example of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect > > It is supposed to

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> To be fair, the difference between grub1/2 and lilo remains that >> grub1/2 don't update the mbr for every config change but only when >> they are set up. >> >> grub2's update is the equivalent of grubby on Fedora and grub

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:02:12 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > What is the supposed advantage of grub2 over grub? As near as I can tell grub2 is a classic example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect It is supposed to be easier to add support for different filesystems with loadable

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
Tom H wrote: > To be fair, the difference between grub1/2 and lilo remains that > grub1/2 don't update the mbr for every config change but only when > they are set up. > > grub2's update is the equivalent of grubby on Fedora and grub1's > update-grub on Debian/Ubuntu. What is the supposed advant

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:53:03 -0400 > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> It isn't quite that bad Tom, I have composed new stanza's for it several >> times now. > > It isn't horrible, but it is a lot more inconvenient that the current > grub, but at least

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:53:03 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > It isn't quite that bad Tom, I have composed new stanza's for it several > times now. It isn't horrible, but it is a lot more inconvenient that the current grub, but at least on ubuntu, if you modify the grub.cfg file directly you are gonn

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday, July 19, 2010 09:52:16 am Tom Horsley did opine: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:44:37 -0400 > > Tom H wrote: > > I wonder what the status of grub2 is in Fedora. > > Hopefully, the status is "we'll stick with grub forever". > The newest ubuntu releases default to grub2 and I find > it incred

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:44:37 -0400 > Tom H wrote: > >> I wonder what the status of grub2 is in Fedora. > > Hopefully, the status is "we'll stick with grub forever". > The newest ubuntu releases default to grub2 and I find > it incredibly inconv

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:44:37 -0400 Tom H wrote: > I wonder what the status of grub2 is in Fedora. Hopefully, the status is "we'll stick with grub forever". The newest ubuntu releases default to grub2 and I find it incredibly inconvenient. I could swear the main driving force behind grub over lilo

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:54 PM, JD wrote: >  On 07/18/2010 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote: >> >> I have just installed grub2 in an f13 vbox (built through an f13 live >> cd install) and it looks to me like that: >> (1) grub1 is still in control and the mbr is untouched >> (2) you can just uninstall grub2

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-18 Thread JD
On 07/18/2010 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, JD wrote: >> Has anyone installed grub2 on F13? >> If yes, did it work OK? >> did you have to manually modify any files >> in /boot/grub? >> >> If it did not work, was it easy to get back to legacy grub? > I have just ins

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Doron Bar Zeev wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 22:13, Tom H wrote: >> >> For the record: >> >> Installing grub2 added an entry to the grub1 menu pointing to grub2's >> stage 1 img in /boot/grub2. >> >> The grub boot menu remains grub1's and still defaults to

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/19/2010 12:43 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Installing gettext allows you to run "grub2-mkconfig -o >> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" to create a grub.cfg and be able to chainload >> grub2 from grub1 (I hope that Fedora will eventually add an >> "upda

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-18 Thread Doron Bar Zeev
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 22:13, Tom H wrote: > > For the record: > > Installing grub2 added an entry to the grub1 menu pointing to grub2's > stage 1 img in /boot/grub2. > > The grub boot menu remains grub1's and still defaults to the grub1 > entry to boot the most recent kernel. > > I think you ha

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/19/2010 12:43 AM, Tom H wrote: > > Installing gettext allows you to run "grub2-mkconfig -o > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" to create a grub.cfg and be able to chainload > grub2 from grub1 (I hope that Fedora will eventually add an > "update-grub"/"update-grub2" shell script to run "grub2-mkconfig -o

Re: Grub2 question

2010-07-18 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, JD wrote: >  Has anyone installed grub2 on F13? > If yes, did it work OK? > did you have to manually modify any files > in /boot/grub? > > If it did  not work, was it easy to get back to legacy grub? I have just installed grub2 in an f13 vbox (built through an f13

Grub2 question

2010-07-17 Thread JD
Has anyone installed grub2 on F13? If yes, did it work OK? did you have to manually modify any files in /boot/grub? If it did not work, was it easy to get back to legacy grub? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.f