Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: William Tetrault <xcourse97@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:27:01
Message-Id: 200510301324.30816.xcourse97@charter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd by Dmitri Pogosyan
1 I too have been on the amd64 platform since early last year, and am still
2 using grub-static, although I know that grub now compiles fine for this
3 platform (at least, that is what I've heard - I'm still using grub-static).
4 But whether one uses grub or grub-static, the installed files are the same,
5 and grub works the same regardless of which is chosen. My grub.conf has not
6 changed from when I was using Athlon XP's (although it's no longer called
7 grub.lst).
8
9 On Sunday 30 October 2005 12:07 pm, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
10 > Actually, that reminds me that a year ago on amd64 architecture the
11 > compiled grub did not work for me (it did compile but fail to boot) and I
12 > had to use grub-static-0.93, which worked fine. I looked now and see that
13 > I still use this version of grub on all my amd64 machines.
14 >
15 >
16 >
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18 > Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics
19 > Associate Professor University of Alberta
20 > tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs
21 > fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd DR GM SEDDON <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>