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Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! |
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: |
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> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use |
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> anything other than grub these days?) |
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Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to my original |
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Linux installation, SuSE 5.3. |
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Why? Because learning grub would take time. Maybe not very much time, |
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but it would take some. By contrast, although learning LILO took a very |
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great deal of time, that time is already spent, and can never more be got |
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back. Putting an extra entry into lilo.conf and regenerating the boot |
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loader now takes, at most, a few minutes. |
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But if the motivation of your question is simplifying Gentoo by leaving |
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out LILO, that wouldn't bother me at all. While I've still got a Debian |
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on my PC, I can use it to lie low, and when I need to learn grub, no big |
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deal. In fact, by the time I get to learn grub, it will, in its turn, |
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probably have been superseded by something else. :-) |
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> Regards |
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> Dirk |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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