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
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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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