From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0Gvw-000645-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:43:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8B7CE0407; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E650E0407 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 40049 invoked by uid 3782); 12 Nov 2008 14:42:58 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E51AA7.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.26.167]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:42:53 +0100 Received: (qmail 4376 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Nov 2008 14:54:41 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:54:41 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk Message-ID: <20081112145441.GE1188@muc.de> References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <79e3aefb0811112359l63b077d8k858a146af90c5e23@mail.gmail.com> 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <79e3aefb0811112359l63b077d8k858a146af90c5e23@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: abc5eff1-07be-4a0a-b338-f75964e2a624 X-Archives-Hash: 6ced78e4cdde1596c1dc2c0b347028f0 Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use > anything other than grub these days?) Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf traces its ancestry back to my original Linux installation, SuSE 5.3. Why? Because learning grub would take time. Maybe not very much time, but it would take some. By contrast, although learning LILO took a very great deal of time, that time is already spent, and can never more be got back. Putting an extra entry into lilo.conf and regenerating the boot loader now takes, at most, a few minutes. But if the motivation of your question is simplifying Gentoo by leaving out LILO, that wouldn't bother me at all. While I've still got a Debian on my PC, I can use it to lie low, and when I need to learn grub, no big deal. In fact, by the time I get to learn grub, it will, in its turn, probably have been superseded by something else. :-) > Regards > Dirk -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).