Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:35:31
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0510301532220.4212@melchior.nuitari.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd by William Tetrault
1 I finally switched my only grub system to lilo yesterday.
2
3 On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, William Tetrault wrote:
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5 > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:24:30 -0600
6 > From: William Tetrault <xcourse97@×××××××.net>
7 > Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
8 > To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
9 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
10 >
11 > I too have been on the amd64 platform since early last year, and am still
12 > using grub-static, although I know that grub now compiles fine for this
13 > platform (at least, that is what I've heard - I'm still using grub-static).
14 > But whether one uses grub or grub-static, the installed files are the same,
15 > and grub works the same regardless of which is chosen. My grub.conf has not
16 > changed from when I was using Athlon XP's (although it's no longer called
17 > grub.lst).
18 >
19 > On Sunday 30 October 2005 12:07 pm, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
20 >> Actually, that reminds me that a year ago on amd64 architecture the
21 >> compiled grub did not work for me (it did compile but fail to boot) and I
22 >> had to use grub-static-0.93, which worked fine. I looked now and see that
23 >> I still use this version of grub on all my amd64 machines.
24 >>
25 >>
26 >>
27 >> --
28 >> Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics
29 >> Associate Professor University of Alberta
30 >> tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs
31 >> fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA
32 >
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd DR GM SEDDON <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd DR GM SEDDON <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>