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Hi, Michael. |
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:55:05PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 10/06/11 19:42, Jonas de Buhr wrote: |
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> >> If we have some grub-legacy and some grub2 installs, |
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> > why would you do that? |
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> Eventually, grub2 will be all that's available from portage. At that |
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> point, I can either, |
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> 1) Install grub2 on some machines. |
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> 2) Maintain grub-legacy (and install media) myself. |
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> > have a look at the link i posted. if you really want to keep it simple, |
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> > grub2 can be configured with a single grub.cfg file. |
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> How much work would it be for you to, |
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> * Learn grub2 |
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> * Travel to my office here in Baltimore |
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> * Test it on all combinations of hardware that we currently run |
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> * Document the standard config and any special cases |
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> * Upgrade a bunch of my servers at 4am? |
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> If you still think it's "not much" then I'd be happy to have you do it |
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> while I drink margaritas. |
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Why don't you upgrade to lilo instead? It's got a single configuration |
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file which is short and relatively simple, and it just works. My |
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lilo.conf has 50 non-comment/space lines, and that includes 8 kernel |
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versions. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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