Question 1: has anyone used preupgrade (I used it with fc 17 -> 19, and it
pretty much appeared to work, but that was on a couple of worksttions)?
Opinions?
Question 2: is grub still supported, or is there something that *FORCES*
you to use grub2?
mark "grub2 must DIE!"
On 9.7.2014 20:35, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Question 1: has anyone used preupgrade (I used it with fc 17 -> 19, and it > pretty much appeared to work, but that was on a couple of worksttions)? > Opinions? > Question 2: is grub still supported, or is there something that *FORCES* > you to use grub2? > > mark "grub2 must DIE!"It doesn't seem to have default packages. But you can always compile your own. Of course when kernel updates you need to update config by hand. Or you could do sensible thing and learn to change grub2 configs. It wasn't that hard when I had to change some kernel boot parameter. -vpk
On 07/09/2014 12:35 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Question 2: is grub still supported, or is there something that *FORCES* > you to use grub2?GRUB < 2 isn't supported, but it can be made to work. I still use it on most of my Fedora and EL7 systems. Assuming that you already have GRUB installed, the steps are basically: * Tell anaconda not to install a bootloader * After installation, boot from a different OS or live CD and manually create a GRUB stanza for your new OS * Boot your new OS * Create /etc/sysconfig/kernel * ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /etc/ The last two steps enable grubby to update grub.conf when you install a new kernel. -- =======================================================================Ian Pilcher arequipeno at gmail.com Sent from the cloud -- where it's already tomorrow ========================================================================
On 07/09/2014 07:35 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Question 1: has anyone used preupgrade (I used it with fc 17 -> 19, and it > pretty much appeared to work, but that was on a couple of worksttions)? > Opinions? > Question 2: is grub still supported, or is there something that *FORCES* > you to use grub2? > > mark "grub2 must DIE!" >This is what I put in my notes about GRUB2 I have RHEL 7 Beta installed in dual boot with CentOS 6.x. Since RHEL 7 installed GRUB2, I had problem that RHEL 7 is default boot. My personal solution was to go to /etc/grub.d and run command: mv 10_linux 31_linux grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Explanation: - /etc/grub.d is where grub2 writes down config files used to create boot menu. - OS-prober creates 30_os-prober file in /etc/grub.d - 10_linux is created for RHEL/CentOS 7.x system installed. If you change order of files in /etc/grub.d (numbers at the start of the files) the list generated with grub2-mkconfig will change order in the GRUB2 menu :) Fedora/RHEL 7.x have a changed GRUB2 so for further reading read: 5.3 Multi-boot manual config: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Multi_002dboot-manual-config and Fedora GRUB Wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2 -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant