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 1PQjwA-0003bi-Lb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:05:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39A91E09E7 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962D9E0662 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 16:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so2964987wyf.40 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:26:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=jGawRsgw4RZ6mtgBbKUamdBnAGeL6JQRLYL/QzMIMUw=; b=CTcaZ5yAhT4MViUHrRXGzqgFppHG79NZGvyE82QS07eQqWdBLbSEuZNM2qbzAwjpUP h4cdaEmRODstIzbcNQUza4eTIDf8CJ0JztuOXJi62qyYM5vWNmgN43lxYksGQClaBjYz +8FQipGVsMCfkAk7xEXVuaVPiHOSqh34RLsVs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=D598aPwNnleYESSspQA8olPoXktuEeiebuxnKGXOAAK/FFEZbii/vS5QzEkj8tejET 679CcwrXNi4YXC1MHnRpO0dRvp1xL9u8uLxgJk5HedZ9GJpFNv+OGbkM87LW5uKDIsjN +csYFr10cjkGB31q8Pap6ItNxaE3s8TzypkdU= 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 Received: by 10.227.23.203 with SMTP id s11mr5504397wbb.19.1291911993534; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:26:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.145.129 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:26:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101209102755.48acfc7f.frank.peters@comcast.net> References: <4CFFF5DE.20303@gmail.com> <20101208180344.eefa3254.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4D002218.9060302@gmail.com> <4D006923.8050609@gmail.com> <4D00A5ED.3070205@f_philipp.fastmail.net> <1463292034-1291895910-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1043132697-@b3.c1.bise7.blackberry> <20101209102755.48acfc7f.frank.peters@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:26:31 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] About to install on a 64 bit system. Advice wanted. From: Harry Holt To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=002215b0339e74ab440496fcb35c X-Archives-Salt: a4d0da84-2a54-4d4a-b931-f9fc64e3859f X-Archives-Hash: 5b8a37da077df344f81070b02191051d --002215b0339e74ab440496fcb35c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Frank Peters wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:58:36 +0000 > "Paul Jewell" wrote: > > > When I installed my system back in January, I started off with 64 bit > > only, and immediately hit a problem with grub compilation. > > Why not just use lilo? Lilo doesn't need the kernel to boot the > system and it compiles on pure 64-bit systems. > > I hate to proselytize, but it seems to me that grub has been pushed > into the Linux world without merit. Lilo does the job just as well. > Frank Peters > > +1 --002215b0339e74ab440496fcb35c Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Frank P= eters <fra= nk.peters@comcast.net> wrote:
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:58:36 +0000
"Paul Jewell" <paul@teulu.or= g> wrote:

> When I installed my system back in January, I started off with 64 bit<= br> > only, and immediately hit a problem with grub compilation.

Why not just use lilo? =A0Lilo doesn't need the kernel to boot th= e
system and it compiles on pure 64-bit systems.

I hate to proselytize, but it seems to me that grub has been pushed
into the Linux world without merit. =A0Lilo does the job just as well.
=A0
<= font color=3D"#888888"> Frank Peters


+1
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