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 1PQk58-0004Ld-DT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:15:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72F0BE0A44 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:14:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95184E08EA for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:42:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws8 with SMTP id 8so1813843vws.40 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:42:40 -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=Cm6bCGJwKHnNko5sRsciU7WpkueuOVfsMoEnSLXffJc=; b=tLo6a7RtH1UeV1hn3G2HTbiol2XakchLy4W3+bqhdj7lyHvTcMc2K3pGQMs3CGs/mA 9HHsf0gvS2GYGtYrV3go3j1JhjEBHkgpVhkelYA2C1vddFTU1LZMFz8w2hblYCTCfWSf 3P4rK3REA3xzwZLLqFDa83eHfZGOJlq3CZ4zU= 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=Lj6N3P4ZeBdRPYeZ6YxWFXDrEyD8LaUMsnMSzz+FPaeUUwmsWbE7+D8Z6KpBXmkier jFK05D57pfmEFfEcEbyRQA9VeBzQau1VW1Z6SfRUOYG1/kl2Us3KeBjSqV+dvGLaJS0v 3Euow8wATtYIS6yWs8W98+DZ7Ka6lAh0hIOYI= Received: by 10.220.74.206 with SMTP id v14mr2617229vcj.185.1291912959988; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:42:39 -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 p30sm502454vcf.26.2010.12.09.08.42.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:42:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D0106FC.5020905@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:42:36 -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> <201012081913.19278.stsander@sblan.net> <4D006571.7040807@gmail.com> <201012090822.45379.stsander@sblan.net> In-Reply-To: <201012090822.45379.stsander@sblan.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e9779e01-47e3-43b6-b064-5a8def25ecc2 X-Archives-Hash: 5e0658b7815eda06fccf07e7984e4fff Stan Sander wrote: > Wednesday 08 December 2010 > > > >> 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 >> > No, the static use flag in grub does not do the same thing. If you run a no-multilib profile (in other words pure 64-bit) you need to run grub-static if you are going to use grub as a boot loader. As Frank said, lilo is still maintained and is a viable choice. So that's what it comes down to, your choices -- lilo or grub, multilib or no-multilib. Personally I've run no-multilib for some time now and have not ever wished otherwise since I made the switch. If you run a multilib profile, you can use the regular grub package (or lilo) with whatever USE flags suit your needs. You can also use grub-static in a multilib profile. If you select the no-multilib profile grub will be hard masked. > > New info so a new decision. I plan to go no-multilib so looks like I will be using grub-static after all. Please disregard the post I sent a few seconds ago saying I would try the plain grub first. ;-) Still have no desire to use lilo. lol Dale :-) :-)