On 07/18/2010 12:13 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> 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 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 because of (1) > > 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. > > Choosing the grub2 entry fails because there is no grub.cfg. > > Creating grub.cfg manually fails because gettext is not installed. > > 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 > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" like Debian/Ubuntu to save us the trouble of > creating it). Thank you for the heads up! I think I will pass on grub2. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
