Difference between revisions of "Features/Grub2"

Latest revision as of 13:48, 23 May 2012

Migrate ROSA to Grub2.

Grub2

Grub2 itself is successfully built for ROSA and can be safely used as a default bootloader. Currently we are working on themes for it.

Configuration tools

We have a choice of two tools at the moment:

• kcm-grub2
• grub-customizer

kcm-grub2 is a module for KDE Control Center; other environments might prefer to use grub-customizer (though note that kcm-grub2 can be launched as a separate application in any DE using kcmshell4).

Drakxtools

We have to update bootloader-utils that depend on drakxtools. Scripts from bootloader-utils are used when bootloader config should be regenerated - e.g., when a kernel is installed or removed.

Where to get

• for 32bit systems:

urpmi.addmedia icedphoenix_personal http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/icedphoenix_personal/repository/rosa2012lts/i586/main/release

• for 64bit ones:

urpmi.addmedia icedphoenix_personal http://abf.rosalinux.ru/downloads/icedphoenix_personal/repository/rosa2012lts/x86_64/main/release

• Now you can install grub2 and tools:

urpmi grub2 kcm-grub2 grub-customizer

• After that I strongly recommend to remove the media, since there are experimental builds of some core packages there that can damage your system:

urpmi.removemedia icedphoenix_personal