Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Harry Holt <harryholt@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted.
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:05:47
Message-Id: AANLkTinoL9KA4p4MjZaVxjaVOGLxncwtaZapM1qs-vdX@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. by Frank Peters
1 On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net>wrote:
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3 > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:58:36 +0000
4 > "Paul Jewell" <paul@×××××.org> wrote:
5 >
6 > > When I installed my system back in January, I started off with 64 bit
7 > > only, and immediately hit a problem with grub compilation.
8 >
9 > Why not just use lilo? Lilo doesn't need the kernel to boot the
10 > system and it compiles on pure 64-bit systems.
11 >
12 > I hate to proselytize, but it seems to me that grub has been pushed
13 > into the Linux world without merit. Lilo does the job just as well.
14 >
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16 Frank Peters
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19 +1