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 1SBBdg-00076o-4S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:03:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59B28E0777 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44FAE0BF9 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenq2 with SMTP id q2so3554008yen.40 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:09:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1VG5pu7VDSTFIdbDT9aflzFrIWSKg9qnueyPbA6/098=; b=A52o15Bx2kr7MygMRbaxiUA79GGla+urSgkMP0IPwtpEM/7GYQArAJMw+OinVMlBcB IWulAggrgteWqn27YvSFFak2yoFKDuOpOBlUw9/HIT5L01KK+zhoWyHbLJLL4azlNIsu 7DQQ5/d8AjSPW9lUIsTwQG4LANaH0HRII9+8/BF11BeizAzgXpkyBb7puRh6nLmP/JtE JV7KU/hTm5gYgG8zb8PPQaQlojQqHitk90cqegKy39Xqja45AF6gU8RW1ArEneL5iWL8 zuKkCg2fhfpjmrv5LTZ8a+gQFWjIypjjyBYK4HJgNo9fV+bvlovBzo9lNCHCV0imZedX ZjdA== Received: by 10.236.153.36 with SMTP id e24mr13242690yhk.67.1332526150336; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-214-242.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.214.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p41sm23209733yhj.14.2012.03.23.11.09.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:09:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F6CBC43.7040701@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:09:07 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120320 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 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: Outside of portage (was Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel-3.3.0 and Nvidia-drivers) References: <20120319121229.0a9ecd3b.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322144131.5f02745a.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120322213254.GA26298@crud> <20120323084143.a0d6777b.frank.peters@comcast.net> <20120323154931.GA11297@crud> In-Reply-To: <20120323154931.GA11297@crud> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0fe97036-fb33-463f-9fd6-ad22e81d1c27 X-Archives-Hash: 1682e917081d5330a1b84a5475107e26 Barry Schwartz wrote: > Frank Peters skribis: >> I hope lilo stays around forever. It is a sensible choice. >=20 > Lilo is good; it checks your work for you. The bootloader isn=E2=80=99t= really > an operating system feature, in my view, because if you have more than > one OS they are all going to use the same bootloader (not counting > chaining). >=20 >=20 This is odd, I switched away from lilo when I was dual booting two Linux OS's. The things you are talking about being good are the reasons I switched. lol I been using grub, legacy, for a long time and I have no complaints about it. For me, it works better than lilo ever did. The new grub may change things tho. May being the key word. Dale :-) :-) --=20 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=3D"--quiet-build=3Dn"