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Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> posted |
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58965d8a0904081911t3e57e301sa69824f07a55fcce@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:11:36 -0500: |
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> I stuck with LILO up until about 2 years ago. I finally gave in and |
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> switched to grub and never looked back... I should have done it long |
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> ago. |
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Same here, except I'm rather more sanguine on the "should have switched |
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long ago" part. |
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I was running LILO on Mandrake, and back when I first switched to Gentoo |
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(2004.1, I tried with 2004.0 but couldn't get it to work right away and |
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by the time I was ready to try again .1 was out, Gentoo released stages |
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and install media quarterly at that point), I decided I was figuring out |
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enough new stuff at that point, no need adding GRUB at the same time. |
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But Gentoo didn't have LILO for amd64 at all at the time, so I just |
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copied Mandrake's LILO over to my Gentoo partition before I got rid of |
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Mandrake, tried it, and it worked (static linking). So I kept it for |
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awhile. Then I upgraded to the upstream supplied binary and ran it for |
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awhile. Eventually Gentoo got LILO working for amd64, and I ran it. |
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Then finally when I decided I needed RAID (two bad drives in two years, |
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tho the last one went bad due to the AC going out, in Phoenix, in the |
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middle of the summer, the room temp hit over 60C (140F), no telling what |
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the drive hit), I learned kernel md/mdp RAID with mdadm, lvm, and GRUB, |
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all together, for that upgrade. |
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It was time to do it and I'm glad I did, but LILO worked fine for me for |
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years and I was and remain comfortable with when I switched. |
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Now the thing /I/ should have done earlier was switch to the Gentoo/amd64 |
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no-multilib profiles. They've been MUCH better for me, and I'd have been |
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better off either never running multilib on Gentoo at all (tho I'm not |
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sure they had no-multilib back in 2004), or switching to it as soon as it |
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was available. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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