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On Thursday 27 Aug 2015 20:30:17 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2015-08-27, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> >> For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a |
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> >> pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. |
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> > So you are saying (trying to read the 'tea leaves' here) that |
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> > grub legacy ( grub-static-0.97-r12) will work well on a 64 bit systems, |
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> I still use it on all my 64-bit machines. |
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> > (u)efi with say multiple drives (> 2T) and Raid-1 configs like |
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> > btrfs-native or via lvm? |
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> I haven't started using UEFI boot mode mode yet, so I don't know how |
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> thetwo grub's compare. |
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UEFI do not need GRUB{1,2} or any other boot manager. They can boot any |
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kernel you drop in the EFI boot partition directly, as long as you set it up |
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so. It becomes cumbersome if you are planning to multiboot various kernels & |
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OS frequently. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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