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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted.
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:53:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201012090953.23327.joost@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D006571.7040807@gmail.com>

On Thursday 09 December 2010 06:13:21 Dale wrote:
> Stan Sander wrote:
> > Wednesday 08 December 2010
> > 
> >>> One thing that I think some folks (me included) do that differs from
> >>> the guide (at least the last time I read it) is to use grub-static
> >>> instead of grub. I suspect that's because it's 32-bit and more
> >>> compatible.
> >>> 
> >>>      Other than that I can't think of anything I do differently.
> >>>      
> >>>      Best of luck with the new install. I'm sure it will go great.
> >>> 
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Mark
> >> 
> >> Thanks.  I wasn't aware of that.  I made a note of it.  I certainly
> >> don't want that to mess up.  lol
> >> 
> >> Dale
> >> 
> >> :-)  :-)
> > 
> > In addition to using grub-static, you will need to have the IA32
> > Emulation enabled in your kernel, else you won't be able to execute grub
> > at all.  It's under file formats / Emulations in the menu.
> 
> Glad you posted this.  I looked at the USE flags for grub not a package
> called grub-static.  That seems to be two different beasts.  I never
> knew that package existed.  Would emerging the plain grub with the
> static USE flag give the same results?  I would think not else they
> would just have one package but am curious just the same.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)

FYI:

[U] sys-boot/grub
     Available versions:  
        (0)     *0.92-r1 0.94-r1 0.96-r1 0.96-r2 ~0.96-r3 ~0.97 0.97-r2 0.97-
r3 0.97-r4 0.97-r5 0.97-r6 ~0.97-r8 0.97-r9 ~0.97-r9[9] 0.97-r10 ~0.97-r12[4] 
0.97-r22[6] ~0.97-r90[5] **1.96[2] 1.97-r1[7] ~1.97-r2322[9] ~1.97.2-r1[6] 
~1.97.2-r2[6] **1.98 ~1.98-r7[6] ~1.98-r8[6] **9999 **9999[2] ~9999[7] 
~9999!s[8]
        (2)     ~1.97.2[1] ~1.97.2[3]
        {amd64 custom-cflags (+)debug efi efiemu multilib multislot ncurses 
netboot nls static truetype usb}
     Installed versions:  0.97-r10(05:22:15 PM 11/22/2010)(ncurses -custom-
cflags -netboot -static)
     Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
     Description:         GNU GRUB 2 boot loader

I use the "standard" grub with the default USE-flags and it works here.

Unless I have a really strange setup, I don't think using "static" for grub is 
needed anymore.

--
Joost



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-09  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-08 21:17 [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted Dale
2010-12-08 22:23 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-09  0:04   ` Dale
2010-12-09  2:13     ` Stan Sander
2010-12-09  4:51       ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09  5:32         ` Dale
2010-12-09  7:42           ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 16:28             ` Dale
2010-12-09 19:55               ` Duncan
2010-12-09  5:13       ` [gentoo-amd64] " Dale
2010-12-09  8:53         ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2010-12-09 10:04         ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 15:19           ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 16:37             ` Dale
2010-12-09 17:37               ` Harry Holt
2010-12-09 18:40                 ` Dale
2010-12-09 16:39           ` Dale
2010-12-09 15:22         ` [gentoo-amd64] " Stan Sander
2010-12-09 16:42           ` Dale
2010-12-09  8:48   ` J. Roeleveld
2010-12-09 15:48     ` Dale
2010-12-10 12:09       ` J. Roeleveld
2010-12-08 22:58 ` Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
2010-12-09  0:08   ` Dale
2010-12-08 23:03 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09  0:26   ` Dale
2010-12-09  1:13     ` Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
2010-12-09  5:29       ` Dale
2010-12-09  9:48         ` Florian Philipp
2010-12-09 11:43           ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 16:47             ` Dale
2010-12-09 11:58           ` [gentoo-amd64] " Paul Jewell
2010-12-09 14:09             ` Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski
2010-12-09 15:13               ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-09 16:53                 ` Dale
2010-12-09 20:22                   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 14:52             ` [gentoo-amd64] " J. Roeleveld
2010-12-09 16:55               ` Dale
2010-12-09 18:03                 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-10 12:34                 ` Alex Alexander
2010-12-11  2:12                   ` Dale
2010-12-09 15:27             ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 16:26               ` Harry Holt
2010-12-09 17:04               ` Lie Ryan
2010-12-09 19:01                 ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 20:09                   ` Harry Holt
2010-12-09  1:17     ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-09  1:54     ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09  4:41       ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09  5:18       ` [gentoo-amd64] " Dale
2010-12-09  6:55         ` Thomas M
2010-12-09  7:26           ` Dale
2010-12-09  9:36         ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09  4:13     ` Duncan
2010-12-09  6:11       ` Dale
2010-12-09 11:10         ` Duncan
2010-12-09 15:36         ` Frank Peters
2010-12-09 20:05           ` Duncan
2010-12-09 23:22             ` Dale
2010-12-10 12:54       ` Thanasis
2010-12-10 22:48         ` Duncan
2010-12-09  2:27 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Alex Schuster
2010-12-09  5:21   ` Dale
2010-12-09  9:33     ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2010-12-09 10:12       ` Florian Philipp
2010-12-09 11:18         ` Duncan
2010-12-09 17:03           ` Dale
2010-12-09 20:33             ` Duncan
2010-12-09 21:45               ` Alex Schuster
2010-12-09 23:28                 ` Dale
2010-12-10 11:59                   ` J. Roeleveld
2010-12-10 13:16                     ` Dale
2010-12-09 10:06   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Stefan G. Weichinger

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