[kde-linux] Migration from Grub-0.97 to 1.97

[Duncan]

Dr. Edgar Alwers posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:44:42 +0100 as excerpted:

> I have a running system, KDE-4.3.4, self built, Linux From Scratch,
> Kernel 2.6.32.2, beeing booted with Grub-0.97. Menu.lst is located on a
> booting partition /dev/sda8. I have three system running, an older
> kde-3.5 and a windows-xp one.
> 
> Question: are there some instructions, how to migrate to grub-1.97 ? I
> compiled it, I did some grub-mkconfig and so on. But, frankly speaking,
> I am afraid. What should I exactly do to migrate from my /usr/sbin/grub
> with menu.lst to the new grub2 ? I found instructions e.g. from KUbunto,
> but they are good for changes like adding another partition, etc. I did
> not found "migration" instructions, and I would not like if suddently
> could not more boot my system.

This really has nothing to do with KDE, so doesn't belong on the kde 
list.  A quick check of the grub package info for my distribution (Gentoo) 
says this is the grub home page, which is where I'll be starting, as I 
have yet to do the conversion myself (but it's no hurry here, as legacy 
grub will remain a Gentoo package for some time, as nobody's even 
mentioned upgrading the default, yet, on the Gentoo lists).

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

There's very likely a decent writeup about it on wikipedia, as well, and 
of course there's usually quite a number of additional links there for 
further research, too.  Then of course there's google...

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