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 1RCCDT-0007BM-KD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:20:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7CDC21C0D9; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:19:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822AF21C0AD for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:18:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyd10 with SMTP id 10so5151914gyd.40 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:18:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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; bh=4sdahfq3OhYevyQFiJ0a5fexNhANmbR6+xpXB9YKeg4=; b=DPMLePMu++DO9NL1ZglNfDpm9+nbWylRutUX3ZGatYZ9tWRPomasu+AiEPvl5XsAfc H9qxuQdDqCEDKqYucuudnRwt8EfBB6zZJPwtFOxTg9+IcW0g6zizuHU3Q+cR419tL9tF Kji+Rx0AFWY86PtfgFSkCXFdbPa8Utncki9cg= Received: by 10.150.254.1 with SMTP id b1mr1596426ybi.122.1318000731963; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-215-244.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.215.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o17sm25473501anj.3.2011.10.07.08.18.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E8F1859.60709@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:18:49 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111002 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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> <4E8F12EE.3040003@orlitzky.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8F12EE.3040003@orlitzky.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: bce77faeacb000b506751ea7cdf78724 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 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. > > Not to mention you have to run lilo when you update kernels and other things too. I used lilo when I first started using Linux. I can't imagine me ever going back to that thing. Dale :-) :-)