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 1RBBhY-00040W-C1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:34:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA98921C1B0; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 20:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.alltele.net (m1.alltele.net [85.30.0.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D621C21C135 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 20:33:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([87.227.57.71]) by smtp.alltele.net (IceWarp 10.3.3) with ESMTP id NEL86538 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:33:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4E8B6DA3.3050907@coolmail.se> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:33:39 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20111001 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.12 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] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111004110746.395635e0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.27 required=7.00 tests=LOCALPART_IN_SUBJECT=1.56,MR_NOT_ATTRIBUTED_IP=0.20,SMILEY=-0.50,NO_RDNS2=0.01,MR_DIFF_MID=1.00 version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (1.1) on smtp.alltele.net X-CTCH: RefID="str=0001.0A0B0206.4E8B6DA4.0018,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0"; Spam="Unknown"; VOD="Unknown" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b39747a17b010288e4a9ed9197fb7891 On 2011-10-04 20:56, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: Replying two mails in one... Dale: >Is grub2 stable, who uses it and can you post your experience on the >switching process? I use it (1.99-rc1, which is gone from Portage) for booting my UEFI (with GPT partition table) motherboard until I can get coreboot running on it... :-) Experience wise it's, well, not much difference than old grub, with the exception of the change in paradigm: you don't edit the config file directly but instead edit "pre-config" files in order to get a working solution. For me the default settings work fine (well, I haven't been able to change the resolution); it finds my installed kernels in /boot and put's them in the boot list (the boot screen list) together with a single user version for rescue operations. IMO, it's over-complicated (I agree with Grant) but if the default settings works (with tweaks) for you= ... >Was it difficult? Easy? Somewhere between? Hm... Well, see above... Canek: > Me, I want my laptop/desktop computers to have the best resolution > available from moment zero, even before loading the kernel, and not a I agree with this sentiment although I think that the video firmware (or motherboard firmware) should handle this... > single flicker in my screen until my GNOME 3 is fully loaded. So I'm Yes, agree again, although I think Gnome (2,3+) is a festering piece of #%!&... :-) > gonna play with grub2 (or /firstboot, if it materializes) until it's Ok, cool. Please share your experiences. I'll try playing (when I can find the time) with coreboot and FILO: http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads#FILO Best regards Peter K