From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EWWNT-0003jQ-0f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:54:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9V9qOnV008785; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:52:24 GMT Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9V9qNrq021661 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:52:23 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.3] ([62.30.42.224]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:53:14 +0000 Message-ID: <4365E95E.7000603@manchester.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:52:30 +0000 From: DR GM SEDDON User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd References: <200510301807.j9UI7o525531@webmail.phys.ualberta.ca> <200510301324.30816.xcourse97@charter.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Oct 2005 09:53:14.0999 (UTC) FILETIME=[E9929070:01C5DE00] X-Archives-Salt: 74bf137e-1c86-4835-9d6c-f83b600479bf X-Archives-Hash: 7ae698751cb01704824c5bb18c1c6bc7 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 >> 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 >> >> -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list