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From: John Mylchreest <johnm@g.o>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
Cc: Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@g.o>, John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>, gentoo-dev@l.g.o, gentoo-core@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 26 -- Handling kernels with portage
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:33:55
Message-Id: 1083774815.9596.45.camel@johnm.willow.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 26 -- Handling kernels with portage by Greg KH
1 On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 17:22, Greg KH wrote:
2 > > > How would this system update the bootmgr?
3 > > I purposely left this out of the GLEP as it is would be a much more hot
4 > > topic.
5 >
6 > ???
7 >
8 > That's the easiest thing to do, and something that I'm pretty amazed
9 > Gentoo has not implemented yet, as all other distros already come with a
10 > simple script that handles this functionality (works with different boot
11 > loaders too...)
12
13 I havent yet read on from this email in the thread, but fyi - I have a
14 working system to do this with grub/lilo. it is "modular" so would work
15 with any other. It can just be tagged into this system or any other.
16 I shall dig it out and email it it/commit it/do somethign with it
17
18 --
19 Regards
20 John Mylchreest
21
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