[SOLVED] Purging BURG

Roken · 2017-09-28 20:16:12

Excuse me if this is the wrong place, I wanted to post in system administration but I can't. MOD. Please note if appropriate.

Although I've been incrementally upgrading my hardware over the last (several) years without issue, I have always done so using the same base configuration, involving a separate /boot partition. Years ago, I installed burg whilst at the time, I was running Mint. I've always kept the same /boot partition and simply mounted it, including when I first installed Arch. I edited burg.cfg (equivalent is grub.cfg) to keep up with whatever system(s) I needed to boot to.

Fast forward to the last few months, and burg (not having been updated in, well, forever) will leave me with a blank screen after POST and the burg menu, and I figure burg is probably the cause.

I've now managed to get myself booting from grub2 again (not as pretty, but stable), but this also means I still have a pile of burg detritus on my /boot drive.

For full disclosure, I think grub2 is fine since my laptop (never having encountered burg) exhibits no problems.

Since I didn't install burg from Arch, Arch doesn't know about it, meaning that I can't simply pacman -R.

Am I safe to simply delete the burg folder on my /boot partition, or is there more to it?

To re-iterate, I've kept the same /boot partition, manually edited as required, through several OSes, and now I just want it gone for good.

I can confirm that grub2 is now working as my bootloader.

Last edited by Roken (2017-09-28 20:41:47)

jasonwryan · 2017-09-28 20:24:32

Just delete the burg directory.

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC.

Roken · 2017-09-28 20:29:21

Thank you. If that's all I need to do, I'm happy.

EDIT: Deleted, rebooted, and still here

Thank you again. I expected to have to do more.

Last edited by Roken (2017-09-28 20:32:45)

jasonwryan · 2017-09-28 20:32:03

Well, I imagine there are other files (in /usr/bin and /lib and so on), but you'll need to track those down manually and deal with them over time...

Roken · 2017-09-28 20:39:39

Good call. That took all of two minutes.

 locate burg

Then just deleted anything that was burg (though I had to be sure not to delete stuff that was Hamburg, etc)

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[SOLVED] Purging BURG

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