ping Goh Lip - grub2 specialist

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:57 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:29 AM, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Christopher Chan
>>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Know anything about the lousy grub-pc package in Hardy?
>>>>
>>>> Got two disks, sda and sdb. Two primary partitions on each (1,2) with
>>>> the 1 partitions going to md0 for raid1, ext2 and the 2 partitions going
>>>> to md1 for raid1, pv.
>>>>
>>>> grub-install will complain about "unknown device" if I feed it /dev/sda
>>>> or dev/sdb or '(hd0)' but will complain about "Can't embed core.img blah
>>>> blah" if I feed it /dev/md0. Rather, grub-setup will complain after
>>>> grub-install passes the flags onto grub-setup.
>>>
>>> I would avoid grub2 pre-Lucid...
>>>
>>
>> Oh...so I guess I better hold off any attempt to upgrade from Hardy to
>> Lucid for the server then. grub it is.
>
> Does "grub it is" mean that you aren't upgrading or that you're
> upgrading to grub2 after the upgrade to Lucid (the proper way, :) )?
>

It means that I am going to install grub on the Hardy box (it currently 
has lilo thanks to the d-i installer) and I am staying put on the server 
until I try out an upgrade of my Hardy desktop to Lucid.