(solved) removing Grub2 and back to grub?

Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 942 Location: Belgium

I have a small mini-itx board and I'm running into trouble with grub2. Problem is I cannot set the default kernel to boot and it doesn't recognise the keyboard at boot so it only boots the default and it is impossible to change the default. Now with grub it would be just editing "default=x" line but with grub2 this has become so complicated I don't even dare to bother.

Can I just "emerge -C" Grub2 and then install Grub as in the handbook?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:39 pm Post subject:

Spanik,

Yes.

Don't forget to set up your grub.conf
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Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 942 Location: Belgium

OK, going to give it a spin.
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21607

Once you have time to experiment, you may want to look at other bootloaders, such as the Syslinux family. They have a simple configuration file, can handle both MBR and GPT partitions, and have worked well on every system where I used them.

vaxbrat · l33t Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 731 Location: DC Burbs

Your keyboard problem may be due to setting in bios for usb. If there's a "legacy" setting for the hub where your keyboard is plugged in, try using that.

Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 942 Location: Belgium

Everything went fine. Just removed Grub2 and grub.conf and put grub_legacy on, wrote a quick grub.conf and it booted first time.

It must be indeed some bios issue, it is the only pc that has this problem. I'll take a look if there is anything usb related tomorrow.
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