On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:54 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> 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 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. You're welcome. If you simply install gettext and grub2 without running grub2-install, you can test it out without it taking over the boot process. Anyway, unless you want to use an lvm'd /boot, there's no point of running grub2-install (other than having the "latest" grub version installed). I wonder what the status of grub2 is in Fedora. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Grub2 was last updated a year ago. All the "Things that still have to be tested/worked on" have been dealt with, AFAICT. Fedora seems to have grub2 available in its repos for those who really want it NOW but has yet to give it a full polish job. The "update-grub"/"update-grub2" shell scripts that I referred to in my earlier email are missing even though the latter is referred to in "/usr/share/doc/grub2-1.98/README.Fedora" and the grub2 executables have been renamed "grub2-*"/"*-grub2" (upstream and Arch/Debian/Ubuntu use "grub-*"/"*-grub") but, for example, the grub2-install help page uses upstream's executable names. (The grub2-mkconfig help page has been "Fedora'd"; I haven't checked any other ones.) -- 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
