Am 02.07.2012 14:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:

> I don't really need UUID working, but it would be fine to debug this,
> just to know about the issue.

Aside from the UUID-issue I am fiddling with booting ISOs from hdd.

Numerous howtos, but I think it doesn't work with isos on LVM and/or
RAID ... sigh. One ubuntu-howto said that, so I even tried to store the
files on an NTFS partition ... no success so far.

Anyway. Grub 2 boots, good enough for me now ;-)

S

On 03.07.2012 12:32, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Am 02.07.2012 14:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>
>> I don't really need UUID working, but it would be fine to debug this,
>> just to know about the issue.
>
> Aside from the UUID-issue I am fiddling with booting ISOs from hdd.
>
> Numerous howtos, but I think it doesn't work with isos on LVM and/or
> RAID ... sigh. One ubuntu-howto said that, so I even tried to store the
> files on an NTFS partition ... no success so far.
>
> Anyway. Grub 2 boots, good enough for me now ;-)
>
> S
>
>
>

I can boot the systemrescuecd from /boot/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso on
lvm. No raid though.

menuentry "SystemRescueCD" {
set isofile=/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 docache isoloop=$isofile
initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
}

Am 03.07.2012 15:45, schrieb Poncho:

> I can boot the systemrescuecd from /boot/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso on
> lvm. No raid though.
>
> menuentry "SystemRescueCD" {
> set isofile=/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso
> loopback loop $isofile
> linux (loop)/isolinux/rescue64 docache isoloop=$isofile
> initrd (loop)/isolinux/initram.igz
> }

I had to use

set isofile=/boot/systemrescuecd-x86-2.8.0.iso

but then it worked. Yes, thanks! (that isoloop= option was new to me)

Now looking at the grml-options, just curious.

Stefan

Am 02.07.2012 14:11, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:

> The question is, where does that blkid come from? busybox? Inside the
> initramfs? (I also rebuilt that initramfs, just in case)
>
> I *assume* it can't access that library because it is located on /
> which might not yet be mounted at that time?
>
> My / is located on /dev/md0, and also contains /boot.
>
> In the booted system blkid works just fine.

Should I file a bug? Anyone else hitting this?
I hesitate as I might have forgotten something simple/stupid.

S

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 07:05:31PM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote

> And i am still happy with lilo. Am i the only one?

Me too. I have 2 kernels in the boot menu. "Production" and
"Experimental". Boot defaults to "Production". New kernels are loaded
as experimental. If it panics/dies consistently, I go back to square 1.
After it works OK for a few weeks, I run a "promote" script that copies
"Experimental" to "Production", and the cycle can begin again.

--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:45 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 08:05 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>>
>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
>
> Thanks for the tip. /etc/make.conf strikes me as an odd
> place to put settings that apply to only one package.
>
> Any idea why that decision was made?
>

GRUB_PLATFORMS is a use-expanded variable. Portage translates it into
special use flags at runtime. Other use-expands include LINGUAS,
VIDEO_CARDS, INPUT_DEVICES.

The easiest place to define a use-expanded variable is make.conf. You
could use package.env instead, or specify the use flags manually
without the use-expand magic in package.use.

Am 03.07.2012 20:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:

> Should I file a bug? Anyone else hitting this?
> I hesitate as I might have forgotten something simple/stupid.

bit the bullet:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424904

;-)

Am 05.07.2012 15:09, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> Am 03.07.2012 20:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>
>> Should I file a bug? Anyone else hitting this?
>> I hesitate as I might have forgotten something simple/stupid.
>
> bit the bullet:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424904
>
> ;-)

I learned that gcc-4.7.1 does things different ...

and how to boot from sw-raid w/ genkernel and grub 2.

See yourself at b.g.o. , link above.