Re: What is the recommended way to upgrade from grub-legacy to grub2
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:06:14 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:37:37 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>> When I search for ways to upgrade, all I find it people having trouble
>> with grub2.
>>
>> I can't find the recommended upgrade path.
>
> Debian wiki provides brief steps:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Grub#Upgrading_from_v1_to_v2
>
> (I hope they're still valid)
So it looks as if, now, just
install grub
is what gives me the chainloader from grub1 to grub2, and that's
presumably what the official lenny->squeeze stable upgrade does.
>
> Do you think it's now worth upgrading? Unless you have a special need on
> GRUB 2, I would keep the current GRUB until you upgrade or reinstall
> your system again.
well, the release notes say that it's something to do after upgrading to
squeeze so that I'll be ready for the next major upgrade. I plan soon to
copy my entire system to new partition(s) (isn't LVM wonderful) check
that both copies boot properly (yes, I know to edit my /etc/fstab
accordinglly) and then upgrade one of them to testing again to track
wheezy development. (I have a USB device that I have to compile my own
kernel driver for; keeping one stable system around ensures that I'll be
able to use it until the Debian kernel supports it directly.) I still
have a bit of space outside of LVM for a new /boot, but in the long run,
I may want to go to grub 2 to be able to put /boot into LVM too.
It's all a matter of getting ready for the future, not something urgently
needed for now.
-- hendrik
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
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