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William Tetrault wrote: |
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>I too have been on the amd64 platform since early last year, and am still |
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>using grub-static, although I know that grub now compiles fine for this |
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>platform (at least, that is what I've heard - I'm still using grub-static). |
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>But whether one uses grub or grub-static, the installed files are the same, |
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>and grub works the same regardless of which is chosen. My grub.conf has not |
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>changed from when I was using Athlon XP's (although it's no longer called |
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>grub.lst). |
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>On Sunday 30 October 2005 12:07 pm, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote: |
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>>Actually, that reminds me that a year ago on amd64 architecture the |
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>>compiled grub did not work for me (it did compile but fail to boot) and I |
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>>had to use grub-static-0.93, which worked fine. I looked now and see that |
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>>I still use this version of grub on all my amd64 machines. |
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Hi, shall I try 'emerge unmerge grub' and 'emerge grub-static'? Then |
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'install-grub' to start the system using the static ver/ |
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This seems v. promising. |
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Gavin. |
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>>Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics |
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>>Associate Professor University of Alberta |
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>>tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs |
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>>fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA |
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