[ale] grub

[H P Ladds]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  On 02/14/2015 09:30 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> Yeah. It's using grub 2 and the setup is way, way different.
> Way, way, way different.
> You have to use new tools to tell grub what and where as the simple text
> file edit is not sufficient.
> Can't give specifics as I still have to look them up in man pages and
> interwebs.
> On Feb 14, 2015 9:05 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> so I have grub, and the grub menu has a bunch of entries, windows-sda2,
>> fedora 20-sdb5, fedora21-sdb6.. so I am booted into fedora sdb6, get a
>> new kernel installed and run
>> # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>> then
>> # grub2-install /dev/sda
>> it says everything is fine, no errors.
>>
>> then I reboot and... the old menu is still there. So I go into sdb6
>> Advanced, change the kernel to the new one and it boots..
>> it SAYS it changed MBR, no errors, yet I still have the old grub menu...
>> am I missing something?
>>
>    man grub2
> No manual entry for grub2
> [root at pauls-server mnt]# man grub2-mkconfig
> No manual entry for grub2-mkconfig
> [root at pauls-server mnt]# man grub2-install
> No manual entry for grub2-install
>
> I give up...
>
> Yup, that's natural.

The whole Grub2 thing was like my parents telling me about Santa... I knew
the developers meant well, but their rational for what they'd done seemed
contorted and obscure. I never quite fully trusted "the community" after
that...



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