From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA4B1389FE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:16:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 57DBBE08F2; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD99E08D9 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XkEsL-000DIw-Tr for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:16:33 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:16:33 +0000 Message-ID: <15724934.eWR0Wdy2P9@wstn> Organization: Society for Retired Gentlefolk User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <8373843.QKcfWZa5E2@andromeda> References: <54536D16.6090401@libertytrek.org> <8373843.QKcfWZa5E2@andromeda> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 1ab16c2d-37f1-4051-8367-664b62928b14 X-Archives-Hash: db008e701c938fee63f16e1c170ca40a On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote: > I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely caused > by some changes in used filesystems instead of any other cause. > If I really wanted to, I might get it to work, but I don't see the point in > spending time on this. > Grub starts the boot process and then, afaik, disappears. > Which is sufficient for me. My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run levels at boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this yet, or it couldn't the last time I checked. I don't suggest that everyone has a similar need, but at least in some cases the old grub does still have a place. -- Rgds Peter