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 1L0Jri-0005Me-Df for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:50:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 901C0E04F6; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70871E04F6 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so559171qwc.10 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:50:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bE517whJyfzYu+E1AHDf1DRZrRIRmpAwzpFxIqugeZk=; b=dSS7Cvg9lcfB7FnCPF50p13RFh1AV6gcChuuHIXaJqP4jrKgFfrV1BHXyfIwKBhUcZ UiXEHtW+rc1JcBkGADf80WNvEPVEYQ7/T3f08KhAwA229fYbkv2Ml6bxYq0vJIn4jHTg 1qNpTDuG/NJPZY21ZyWo1+VSoMOcX5SzkTO/A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QXmJ/NMMxFK2x8DRsBweZChB+F8XpkJBPqu9oPRUcWtYewEsBArXp07NfXnTX1Qqqy cD4aGQwIioiH8kQhzMpPWBDESwDiIihQB9doig3xGlXKafoVygMgBbKm1xRIZ6lfOh8S IUd1uMihlLl3zVEchDEfITu6gry8o+wxckPk4= Received: by 10.215.40.3 with SMTP id s3mr9975104qaj.86.1226512252637; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.90.179? (dialup-4.231.90.179.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.90.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm3959347qwf.0.2008.11.12.09.50.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:50:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491B1777.8060505@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:50:47 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081110 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <79e3aefb0811112359l63b077d8k858a146af90c5e23@mail.gmail.com> <20081112145441.GE1188@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20081112145441.GE1188@muc.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ac5bdcbd-7e03-4dae-99d5-e8a6181661eb X-Archives-Hash: f5f1b843151fb9d4900b322c636ad2e5 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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 >> > > I started out with Lilo too. I can't recall why I switched but I did. Grub is so much easier than Lilo. I have no regrets with switching and would only use Lilo if it was all that was available. The biggest thing to learn is the way the drives are listed. It uses (hd0,0) and such. It's really not that hard once you get how it does it. Also, it is real easy to switch to a older kernel at the grub boot screen. Just edit the boot line and let it rip. You can also edit other options for the boot line but changing kernels is the big one for me. It's a thought. Dale :-) :-)