Talk:Grub2

Massacre of Darlings
I've clean this article up(should have been slapped with a template long ago) and in doing so removed a lot of content, some clearly outdated, some just to vague. It now talks about the 1.9* version of GRUB2 and not the live(-9999) version. Revert at your discretion. --Ni1s 14:17, 29 April 2010 (GMT)

Article is outdated
Modifying the /boot/grub/grub.cfg is not recommended at all, as it is:
 * write protected by default
 * overwritten each time the update-grub or grub-mkconfig are used

To modifify the Grub2 entries, the user need to modify files located in /etc/grub.d/ and the /etc/default/grub (which contains configuration variables)

As I am working on having a clean nice Grub2 setup, I'll modify this article consequently.

--bebR 15:10, 6 September 2010 (GMT)
 * Excellent! It's high time the "GRUB2 way of doing things" got some documentation. /Ni1s 15:35, 6 September 2010 (GMT)
 * Glad to here that! I'm however having massive headaches looking for configuration recommendations in the (in developpement) documentation ... I'm sure I can do it! :D bebR 07:53, 7 September 2010 (GMT)

Say what?
As of 9 Sept 2010:

The warning in the pink box on top of this page says grub2 is not marked stable, and should be used at one's own risk.

Nevertheless, when I look at "eix sys-boot/grub" I get this entry:

[I] sys-boot/grub Available versions: 0.92-r1 0.94-r1 0.96-r1 0.96-r2 ~0.96-r3 ~0.97 0.97-r2 0.97-r3 0.97-r4 0.97-r5 0.97-r6 ~0.97-r8 0.97-r9 0.97-r10 **1.98 **9999 {custom-cflags debug multislot ncurses netboot static truetype} Installed versions: 0.97-r10(06:24:08 AM 07/24/2010)(ncurses -custom-cflags -netboot -static) Homepage:           http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description:        GNU GRUB 2 boot loader

Which indicates that I have installed sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10, which is advertised as grub2, and is marked stable (stable is the default on my system). It happens I have not done a grub update in a very long time, so I don't feel threatened right away, but I'm about to remove my old SCSI /dev/sda, which will renumber everything, and I'm trying to figure out what to do. This documentation is not helping.

Kogorman 21:09, 9 September 2010 (GMT)


 * Grub 0.9x is NOT grub2 - It's Grub Legacy (AKA Grub 1). Source: http://grub.enbug.org/ - Where you saw 0.97 advertised as Grub2, I don't know, but it was wrong.
 * --AllenJB 08:54, 10 September 2010 (GMT)
 * Where it's advertised as Grub 2 is in the EIX Description section: "GNU GRUB 2 boot loader". Naturally I would assume that's just an oversight on the maintainer's part - I would never have thought someone would confuse the two until now though. It should probably read "GNU GRUB 1.x/2.x boot loader" (or something similar). -- Mousee 17:46, 10 September 2010 (GMT)


 * That's a "feature" of how eix works - it takes the description from the highest version (since it can only display 1 description). The highest version in the tree is grub2 for most people.
 * --AllenJB 12:11, 11 September 2010 (GMT)


 * That makes sense. Sort of.  But then may I submit that it would be a better idea for the description to be GRUB boot loader, and the allow the version numbers to do their usual job.
 * Kogorman 03:42, 13 September 2010 (GMT)


 * May I also request that somebody who understands this numbering scheme (with a 9999 version) edit this page sufficiently to clarify the situation. I'm also unsure whether it's proper to submit a bug about this.  Meanwhile, I'm back to figuring out how to get my system together before school starts.
 * Kogorman 03:46, 13 September 2010 (GMT)
 * This page does not deal with the SVN version (-9999) but with grub-1.98. As you can see, only versions prior to 9999 are unmasked in the package.keywords file. It is however true that it is not clearly mentioned. I suppose you can try to submit this "bug" to clarify the description. --bebR 13:02, 21 September 2010 (GMT)

EFI Part
And the efi part? I have needed look to archlinux how to...
 * I have added some Information on how to set up GRUB2 with EFI. I will add / change something when i learned more. But now i have documented the steps i have taken, to install an GRUB2 with EIFI myself.--Dsperlich 10:14, 17 October 2011 (GMT)

I have modified the EFI instructions (somewhat) based on Archwiki grub2 page. -- Keshav P R 17:34, 26 October 2011 (GMT)

An ill-informed question I put here, days ago, called it: Reconstruct a completely new boot partition with grub2 ?
Deleting it now. Look it up in the history if you need, but it is nothing really useful for this topic, or only remotely so. Thank you.