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On 2015-08-26, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alec Ten Harmsel <alec <at> alectenharmsel.com> writes: |
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>> > So some vintage installs/upgrades got me thinking. What does Grub-2 |
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>> > offer that grub-1 does not. I cannot think of anything that I need |
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>> > from Grub-2 not mbr, nor efi board booting. Not dual/multi booting |
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>> > as grub-1 excels on that, and not on drives larger than 2 T. |
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>> > So what is the (hardware scenario) where grub-2 and it's problems |
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>> > are superior to grub-1? I'm having trouble thinking of that |
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>> > situation.......? |
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>> 64-bit hardware with the no-multilib profile[1]. I have no "-bin" packages |
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>> on my system, nor do I run any pre-built 3rd party applications, so I |
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>> waste no time compiling worthless 32-bit libraries. Therefore, I need |
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>> grub 2. |
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> Ok this is interesting. Is this only an AMD64 thing? |
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Yep. In theory the same thing could come up with respect to 64/32 bit |
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SPARC or something, but in practice it's ARM64 |
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> On Arm64 you'd most likely want to run 32 bit binaries. |
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Some people do. Some people don't |
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> I'm OK with this, but what is the benefit of such profile selection:: |
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> curiously I have no experience with the profile selection, despite |
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> running quite a few amd64 system. What would the benefits be |
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> running this profile on older amd64 hardware ? |
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The main benefit of ARM64 w/o 32-bit libs is that you can't run acroread. |
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;) |
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If only evince could "print current view", I could ditch acroread... |
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