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 1R2WPm-0003yY-Ey for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:52:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A36721C136; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9FB21C025 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (p5B277D65.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.125.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7D71539A00B for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:51:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:51:07 +0200 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot Message-ID: <20110911005107.15fa647a@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <20110910150210.1734a29c@dartworks.biz> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <11342928.W3O2ONNTLv@tux> <4E69D406.9000909@gmail.com> <20110909133547.2cc7747c@weird.wonkology.org> <20110910150210.1734a29c@dartworks.biz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 38cce2823e8015a9f8ec0d104b3ca682 Keith Dart writes: > === On Fri, 09/09, Alex Schuster wrote: === > > What I fear much more is when good old grub is no longer supported > > and I have to use grub2, which I tried to understand, but failed. > > Ya, it's horrid. But the {sys,ext}linux bootloader is still there and > maintained and I like it better. I use extlinux on all my Gentoo > systems now. Interesting. What are the advantages? What I like most about Grub is the interactive shell. And that I don't have to run a command like I had to do with Lilo after installing a new kernel. I guess Grub 1 will be around for a long time, and there will be no need for me to switch soon. But I had to deal with Grub 2 on other installations, and I had many problems. And I was disappointed because configuring it is so much more complicated. It may have cooler features and suport more file systems, but setting up grub 1 most of the times was grub, root (hd0,0), setup (hd0), quit and setting up 2-3 lines in grub.conf. Wonko