Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net>
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 16:12:06
Message-Id: 20101209102755.48acfc7f.frank.peters@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. by Paul Jewell
1 On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:58:36 +0000
2 "Paul Jewell" <paul@×××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > When I installed my system back in January, I started off with 64 bit
5 > only, and immediately hit a problem with grub compilation.
6
7 Why not just use lilo? Lilo doesn't need the kernel to boot the
8 system and it compiles on pure 64-bit systems.
9
10 I hate to proselytize, but it seems to me that grub has been pushed
11 into the Linux world without merit. Lilo does the job just as well.
12
13 Frank Peters

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