Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: DR GM SEDDON <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:54:55
Message-Id: 4365E95E.7000603@manchester.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd by Nuitari
1 Hi, if I cannot get grub towork. How do I go-about making the change to
2 lilo?
3 Thanks
4 Gavin.
5
6
7 Nuitari wrote:
8
9 > I finally switched my only grub system to lilo yesterday.
10 >
11 > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, William Tetrault wrote:
12 >
13 >> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:24:30 -0600
14 >> From: William Tetrault <xcourse97@×××××××.net>
15 >> Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
16 >> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
17 >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
18 >>
19 >> I too have been on the amd64 platform since early last year, and am
20 >> still
21 >> using grub-static, although I know that grub now compiles fine for this
22 >> platform (at least, that is what I've heard - I'm still using
23 >> grub-static).
24 >> But whether one uses grub or grub-static, the installed files are the
25 >> same,
26 >> and grub works the same regardless of which is chosen. My grub.conf
27 >> has not
28 >> changed from when I was using Athlon XP's (although it's no longer
29 >> called
30 >> grub.lst).
31 >>
32 >> On Sunday 30 October 2005 12:07 pm, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
33 >>
34 >>> Actually, that reminds me that a year ago on amd64 architecture the
35 >>> compiled grub did not work for me (it did compile but fail to boot)
36 >>> and I
37 >>> had to use grub-static-0.93, which worked fine. I looked now and
38 >>> see that
39 >>> I still use this version of grub on all my amd64 machines.
40 >>>
41 >>>
42 >>>
43 >>> --
44 >>> Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics
45 >>> Associate Professor University of Alberta
46 >>> tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs
47 >>> fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA
48 >>
49 >>
50
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