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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 07:44:04
Message-Id: X+mMsC3VQZZn+1Mc@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 08:54:32PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote
2 > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:22:44 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >
4 > > I believe grub only has to be set up once, unless you often change
5 > > boot drives, etc. If it's "set it and forget it" for a single-user,
6 > > single hard-drive system, I'm OK with a one-time complex set-up.
7 >
8 > They all need to be set up once, whether the config is 6 lines or 260
9 > lines - real examples here, not made up figures.
10 >
11 > Hmm, it seems even systemd-boot's 6 lines for 2 kernels is excessive,
12 > I no longer use rEFInd, but it's config file is still in /boot and
13 > it is ONE line per kernel!
14
15 And all these years I've been using lilo. For 2 kernels lilo.conf
16
17 * 43 lines including comments and blank lines
18 * 18 lines excluding comments and blank lines
19
20 --
21 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
22 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>