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 1RCBqw-0003Ro-Ip for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:56:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D131721C0AD; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152F221C026 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.14] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6585137B49 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:55:43 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1317999343; bh=Tt0A9kCjSpZHFEE7M4nhUxKqv/W+oNDWf8UEGtLRors=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=FFxf9EhR3dD2MnuVwAGLFEtLV9RWrUj5H4WAgdgDiZzWORDuN4pqEyDbdishV0AVo pmN+wvNULqAUXgvZk79PiZHoe5Ht88J1gez+zL75qnVOgsC/GFbltkE24fGdvsb99f upq7B/28hxnMdItsmepJKPY0F5G8mA8iR7Zjy3tU= Message-ID: <4E8F12EE.3040003@orlitzky.com> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:55:42 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110923 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] OT: change and improvement 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> <20111007142932.GG2830@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20111007142932.GG2830@acm.acm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e8f604fb0bbe4b2aa2af720b0cab0116 On 10/07/2011 10:29 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > 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. > Why don't I avoid $difficult_thing by doing $equally_difficult_other_thing? =) If I thought lilo was going to be around longer than grub2, it might make sense. I'm gambling on that one.