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Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Joshua D Doll <joshua.doll@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll <joshua.doll@×××××.com> |
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>>>> wrote: |
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>>>>> I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and |
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>>>>> written. I |
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>>>>> feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read |
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>>>>> and |
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>>>>> follow what the doc is trying to convey. |
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>>>>> --Joshua Doll |
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>>>> I agree. Everything except the grub part. It's well written but it |
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>>>> requires more knowledge about the actual hardware than the rest of it, |
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>>>> especially if you do it wrong and have to recover. |
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>>> I helped my brother install Ubuntu and the lack of control over grub |
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>>> was frustrating. It just did what it wanted to do without asking |
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>>> (which was install grub onto the wrong drive with the wrong drive |
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>>> numbers, because the BIOS boot order did not match Ubuntu's detected |
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>>> drive order). If that drive had been part of a RAID or had some |
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>>> important metadata in the boot sector, it could have been a disaster. |
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>>> No distro is perfect. Gentoo is perfect for me, though :) |
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>> I think you mean to say no boot loader is perfect. ;-) |
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>> --Joshua Doll |
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> The ubuntu installer did not tell me which drive it was installing the |
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> boot loader onto, nor did it give me a choice -- it chose the one it |
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> thought was appropriate (and it was wrong). |
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> If you google for ubuntu grub sata ide you can see it happens to |
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> nearly everyone who has a mixture of IDE and SATA drives where they |
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> boot from IDE but linux gives sda to sata and sdc to IDE or whatever. |
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Actually the kernel has assigned most hdd, etc. some form of sd* for |
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awhile now. The only thing that is labeled different, that I've seen in |
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awhile is my dvd burner. Anyways getting to my statement I was being |
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facetious. I can't think of a single piece of software that is perfect, |
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except for maybe "hello, world!", but that's not very useful. |
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--Joshua Doll |
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