Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: Text/Plain, Size: 979 bytes --]

On Thursday 27 Aug 2015 20:30:17 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-08-27, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >> For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a
> >> pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy.
> > 
> > So you are saying (trying to read the 'tea leaves' here) that
> > grub legacy ( grub-static-0.97-r12) will work  well on a 64 bit systems,
> 
> I still use it on all my 64-bit machines.
> 
> > (u)efi with say multiple drives (> 2T) and Raid-1 configs like
> > btrfs-native or via lvm?
> 
> I haven't started using UEFI boot mode mode yet, so I don't know how
> thetwo grub's compare.

UEFI do not need GRUB{1,2} or any other boot manager.  They can boot any 
kernel you drop in the EFI boot partition directly, as long as you set it up 
so.  It becomes cumbersome if you are planning to multiboot various kernels & 
OS frequently.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part. --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 473 bytes --]