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 863F1138CD0 for ; Wed, 20 May 2015 12:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F788E09D4; Wed, 20 May 2015 12:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1F23EE09B3 for ; Wed, 20 May 2015 12:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 32205 invoked by uid 3782); 20 May 2015 12:20:10 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (p579E8126.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.158.129.38]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 May 2015 14:20:09 +0200 Received: (qmail 5594 invoked by uid 1000); 20 May 2015 12:20:29 -0000 Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 12:20:29 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2 Message-ID: <20150520122029.GA5517@acm.fritz.box> References: <1878433.ZRiRyd1Yt7@wstn> <20150520112321.4b47e459@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <1637030.7Pjciu73UM@wstn> 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: <1637030.7Pjciu73UM@wstn> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: b9f2113e-46ce-44db-912c-5651fc387d9d X-Archives-Hash: c23e402f0352531bf91a2011014b0a52 On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:56:36PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 20 May 2015 11:23:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:42:41 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > No, it's only new SSDs, not the whole system, which is six years old. > > > Does that mean my choice is restricted to just the two versions of GRUB? > > No, you could use LiLo ;-) > Ho ho ho! :-) No no no! LiLo, on a six year old machine actually works well. It does exactly what it says on the packet, i.e. it boots up the machine, and nothing more. I use LiLo, mainly to avoid the complexities of Grub. > -- > Rgds > Peter -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany)