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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:28:14
Message-Id: 200909081623.37141.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure. by Alan McKinnon
1 On Monday 07 September 2009 19:09:25 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Monday 07 September 2009 17:39:06 Dale wrote:
3 > > Peter Humphrey wrote:
4 > > > On Sunday 06 September 2009 21:12:37 Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > > >> On Sunday 06 September 2009 19:31:27 Peter Humphrey wrote:
6 > > >>> On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:49:13 Alan McKinnon wrote:
7 > > >>
8 > > >> Um, dude.... grub selects a kernel. Or an OS. But never a DE.
9 > > >> The dm does that.
10 > > >
11 > > > Depends how you have it set up. On this box I have two separate
12 > > > installations: one with kde:3 and one with kde:4. I select the one I
13 > > > want with grub entries.
14 > >
15 > > Could you post your grub.conf? I'd like to see how you do that.
16 >
17 > Well, I'd do it with a customized init that launches a dm preset to a
18 > specific xsession. Or selects a specific .xinitrc.
19
20 In answer to Dale, here's my grub.conf. Do you (Alan) think your way is
21 better, or simpler? (Hope you can sort the wrapping out.)
22
23 [...]
24 title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.30-r6
25 root (hd0,0)
26 kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x31A
27 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap fbcon=scrollback:128k splash=silent
28 memory_corruption_check=1
29
30 title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.30-r6, no X
31 root (hd0,0)
32 kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x317
33 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent softlevel=no-x
34 memory_corruption_check=1
35
36 title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.30-r6, no network
37 root (hd0,0)
38 kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0 vga=0x317
39 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent softlevel=nonetwork
40 memory_corruption_check=1
41
42 [...]
43
44 title=Gentoo Test System 2.6.30-r6
45 root (hd0,0)
46 kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-testsys root=/dev/sdc3
47 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent
48
49 title=Gentoo Test System 2.6.30-r6, no X
50 root (hd0,0)
51 kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-testsys root=/dev/sdc3
52 vga=0x317 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent softlevel=no-x
53
54 title=Gentoo Test System 2.6.30-r6, no network
55 root (hd0,0)
56 kernel /boot/kernel-x86_64-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-testsys root=/dev/sdc3
57 vga=0x317 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap splash=silent softlevel=nonetwork
58
59 [...]
60
61 --
62 Rgds
63 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure. Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>