Thursday, September 5, 2013

Migrating to grub2

Well, this was also relatively painless. Following the instructions from the FedUp page -

grub2-install /dev/sda
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Got me a working grub2 system - however, my poor man's install option was lost.
This I corrected as below, adding it's entry in the file below

[steve@aspireone753 ~]$ sudo cat /etc/grub.d/40_custom
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.

menuentry Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop {
  set root=(hd0,msdos8)
  linux /isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=UUID=B381-1423 rootfstype=auto rw liveimg quiet  rhgb
  initrd /isolinux/initrd0.img
}

and then re-running 
sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

There were some syntax changes from how it was in grub.conf ->

title Fedora-17-x86_64-Live-Desktop.is
  root (hd0,7)
  kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz0 root=UUID=B381-1423 rootfstype=auto rw liveimg quiet  rhgb
  initrd /isolinux/initrd0.img

Note especially the change in partition numbering.

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