Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd

[DR GM SEDDON <gavin.m.seddon@manchester.ac.uk>]

Hi, if I cannot get grub towork.  How do I go-about making the change to 
lilo?
Thanks
Gavin.


Nuitari wrote:

> I finally switched my only grub system to lilo yesterday.
>
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, William Tetrault wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:24:30 -0600
>> From: William Tetrault <xcourse97@charter.net>
>> Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
>> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd
>>
>> I too have been on the amd64 platform since early last year, and am 
>> still
>> using grub-static, although I know that grub now compiles fine for this
>> platform (at least, that is what I've heard - I'm still using 
>> grub-static).
>> But whether one uses grub or grub-static, the installed files are the 
>> same,
>> and grub works the same regardless of which is chosen.  My grub.conf 
>> has not
>> changed from when I was using Athlon XP's (although it's no longer 
>> called
>> grub.lst).
>>
>> On Sunday 30 October 2005 12:07 pm, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, that reminds me that a year ago on amd64 architecture the
>>> compiled grub did not work for me (it did compile but fail to boot) 
>>> and I
>>> had to use grub-static-0.93, which worked fine.  I looked now and 
>>> see that
>>> I still use this version of grub on all my amd64 machines.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Dmitri Pogosyan            Department of Physics
>>> Associate Professor        University of Alberta
>>> tel 1-780-492-2150         412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs
>>> fax 1-780-492-0714         Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, CANADA
>>
>>

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