Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: DR GM SEDDON <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:44:47
Message-Id: 43661F7B.70806@manchester.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd by Nuitari
1 I have tried installing lilo, it says it is masked. So I emerged
2 grub-static and found no differenc however I just remembered; do I need
3 to do install-grub-static? Finally, the system will not let me
4 '--unmerge grub'. How do I change grub?
5 Gavin.
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8
9 Nuitari wrote:
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11 > I finally switched my only grub system to lilo yesterday.
12 >
13 > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, William Tetrault wrote:
14 >
15 >> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:24:30 -0600
16 >> From: William Tetrault <xcourse97@×××××××.net>
17 >> Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
18 >> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
19 >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
20 >>
21 >> I too have been on the amd64 platform since early last year, and am
22 >> still
23 >> using grub-static, although I know that grub now compiles fine for this
24 >> platform (at least, that is what I've heard - I'm still using
25 >> grub-static).
26 >> But whether one uses grub or grub-static, the installed files are the
27 >> same,
28 >> and grub works the same regardless of which is chosen. My grub.conf
29 >> has not
30 >> changed from when I was using Athlon XP's (although it's no longer
31 >> called
32 >> grub.lst).
33 >>
34 >> On Sunday 30 October 2005 12:07 pm, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
35 >>
36 >>> Actually, that reminds me that a year ago on amd64 architecture the
37 >>> compiled grub did not work for me (it did compile but fail to boot)
38 >>> and I
39 >>> had to use grub-static-0.93, which worked fine. I looked now and
40 >>> see that
41 >>> I still use this version of grub on all my amd64 machines.
42 >>>
43 >>>
44 >>>
45 >>> --
46 >>> Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics
47 >>> Associate Professor University of Alberta
48 >>> tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs
49 >>> fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA
50 >>
51 >>
52
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>