Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub fs support
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:53:56
Message-Id: pan.2009.01.26.07.53.37@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] grub fs support by Wil Reichert
1 Wil Reichert <wil.reichert@×××××.com> posted
2 7a329d910901252055i2c98e1eak6fc153000d25f45f@××××××××××.com, excerpted
3 below, on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:55:42 -0800:
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5 > Anyone know if grub-static-0.97-r9 supports ext4? There seem to be
6 > patches floating around which add support, but I'm unable to tell if the
7 > gentoo version has this or not.
8
9 You've probably seen the saying:
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11 "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
12 Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."
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14 In that spirit...
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16 Documenting that sort of thing is what changelogs are for.
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18 Try this, making the path substitution appropriate for your system:
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20 head -20 $PORTDIR/sys-boot/grub-static/Changelog
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22 See what it says about the version you asked about? Guess where you look
23 now.
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25 There's your answer. =:^)
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27 --
28 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
29 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
30 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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