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Harry Holt wrote: |
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> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> Frank Peters wrote: |
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> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:04:52 +0000 (UTC) |
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> Duncan<1i5t5.duncan@×××.net <mailto:1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>> wrote: |
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> Stan Sander wrote: |
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> In addition to using grub-static, you will need to |
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> have the IA32 |
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> Emulation enabled in your kernel, else you won't |
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> be able to execute |
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> grub at all. It's under file formats / Emulations |
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> in the menu. |
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> I think that's covered in the handbook, now, but posting's |
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> still good, |
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> just in case it would have been overlooked. FWIW when I |
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> first switched to |
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> no-multilib, before I did the 32-bit chroot thing, I tried |
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> turning off |
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> that option in the kernel... and found I couldn't run... I |
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> think it was |
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> lilo I was running at the time, properly, so it's |
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> definitely worth |
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> remembering. |
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> Lilo doesn't need the kernel at all. I have IA32 turned off |
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> and I use |
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> lilo to boot. There is no problem. |
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> Unless there is some special requirement, most people probably |
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> use grub |
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> because of the "follow the leader" syndrome. Lilo is still |
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> quite effective |
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> and also quite simple. Fortunately, the Gentoo overlords have |
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> not removed |
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> lilo from the portage tree, but if they ever do, I will just |
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> compile it |
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> myself. Continuous change is not a law of the universe. Some |
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> methods |
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> never become obsolete (out of fashion perhaps, but fashion |
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> should never |
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> be the final guide). |
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> Frank Peters |
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> No offense intended but I have used both lilo and grub. I used |
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> lilo first and for me, it was a nightmare. Fixing even a small |
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> typo was painful for me. I switched to grub and the difference |
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> was like flying the space shuttle or riding a tri-cycle. Let's |
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> remove the computers from the space shuttle just to make it as |
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> difficult. |
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> I may have to use lilo one day but grub will be long dead and will |
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> not compile on any rig I have. |
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> Dale |
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> Good analogy. My issue with grub is that when it fails, I'm stuck in |
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> a tin can in low earth orbit and likely to burn up in the atmosphere. |
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> Recovering from a fall off my tri-cycle is not nearly as painful. |
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> :-) :-) |
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When lilo failed for me one time, I had to reinstall. I couldn't get |
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anything to work. With grub, I just edit the boot line. If grub |
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doesn't load, boot a CD, mount the partitions and chroot in to fix it. |
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I have never had to do that with grub tho. I have no clue how to fix |
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lilo tho. |
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Some of this is because grub has "just worked" for me and lilo was a |
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pain for me. Maybe it has changed, I don't know. I just remember how |
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it was back then. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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