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 1RCBVu-0000Kc-La for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:35:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0C4F21C09B; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CAF021C06D for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 45748 invoked by uid 3782); 7 Oct 2011 14:33:56 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951B9DD.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.185.221]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:33:54 +0200 Received: (qmail 15267 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Oct 2011 14:29:32 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:29:32 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement Message-ID: <20111007142932.GG2830@acm.acm> References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111005162007.GA5820@badass.gateway.2wire.net> <20111005184721.01af0bda@toxic.dbnet> <201110060018.50015.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20111006102023.4471babe@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E0112.3010208@orlitzky.com> <20111006230040.04f9af0f@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E1C54.4010706@orlitzky.com> <20111007014214.5756f0f5@toxic.dbnet> <4E8E4DE9.8040308@orlitzky.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: <4E8E4DE9.8040308@orlitzky.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 766dc38f66b064ae95c4ce444c3e0a8f Hi, Michael. On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 08:55:05PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/06/11 19:42, Jonas de Buhr wrote: > >> If we have some grub-legacy and some grub2 installs, > > why would you do that? > Eventually, grub2 will be all that's available from portage. At that > point, I can either, > 1) Install grub2 on some machines. > 2) Maintain grub-legacy (and install media) myself. > > have a look at the link i posted. if you really want to keep it simple, > > grub2 can be configured with a single grub.cfg file. > How much work would it be for you to, > * Learn grub2 > * Travel to my office here in Baltimore > * Test it on all combinations of hardware that we currently run > * Document the standard config and any special cases > * Upgrade a bunch of my servers at 4am? > If you still think it's "not much" then I'd be happy to have you do it > while I drink margaritas. Why don't you upgrade to lilo instead? It's got a single configuration file which is short and relatively simple, and it just works. My lilo.conf has 50 non-comment/space lines, and that includes 8 kernel versions. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).