From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQZbY-000519-2D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:03:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0604E0857 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 06:03:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE43FE0832 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh3 with SMTP id 3so1609532gyh.40 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:13:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GogVW5QJmoMyu9sT91OCw66imwcewb9Mp3XLb1xUCXw=; b=Su00tGWK08+qYgRuZpF+SHMJOBVyj6YbBmQb9gH7n06qzJX5FM1+dVGmvz4TLxg+i0 pN8CR2dcYc24WBbb47HzPGJjXIPHEhCjbb/pe78MEPWEAEG3XqLHgFtIC6/98x7X+5rl X2WbUTyEPR16+K3jAnBnh8J5WC1GP6HxtTbSo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VSFEahsBtj3jmKMAUiab2HCaLRujGu8vwWsX9M0Fo8Y/EO/efPWx5kqnjp+xqO+u9F 9omm+YyjyMWQVYPuXFTdWVYwh0cMB3NkEFBeqV3AFfT2ULAbpE2sBsDW7FzrTeGdeBPF MXmQIOJFHOn36ixT1DlDL3ROC9l4HbGqFsWiU= Received: by 10.91.11.11 with SMTP id o11mr1181624agi.131.1291871604447; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-133-127.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.133.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c28sm810209ana.21.2010.12.08.21.13.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:13:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D006571.7040807@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:13:21 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101109 Gentoo/2.0.10 SeaMonkey/2.0.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> <4D001CFF.60502@gmail.com> <201012081913.19278.stsander@sblan.net> In-Reply-To: <201012081913.19278.stsander@sblan.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f285f30f-475e-408b-b5ee-566116837195 X-Archives-Hash: 6d93ec0edaf70709ef715ba44ad9721a 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 :-) :-)