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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? On Arm64 you'd |
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most likely want to run 32 bit binaries. This is profile [11} right? |
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default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib |
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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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> > AMD64 Team; <amd64 <at> gentoo.org> |
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> > grub-1 is not available on no-multilib profiles; |
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I had not seen this, but so I guess this is well documented......? |
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Does that profile selection prevent one from selecting grub-1 during |
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and installation? |
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OFF TOPIC |
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On another note: have you seen spark-1.5 ? Cleaner build? |
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http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Fwd-ANNOUNCE-Spark-1-5-0-preview-package-td13683.html |
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James |
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