Re: [gentoo-amd64] initrd

[Nuitari <nuitari@melchior.nuitari.net>]

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 <xcourse97@charter.net>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Dmitri Pogosyan            Department of Physics
>> Associate Professor        University of Alberta
>> tel 1-780-492-2150         412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs
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