From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961071389FE for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2A9AE08EE; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7EA72E07D7 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id x13so6970848wgg.22 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:24:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BDSO8vSZxT2FOMUevo9KOLseLzx/ls0Pc2koB0RGUH4=; b=PfgK5cA3vVObohR9AwLvTYhCzv4p7ZsSJ+pwZ8aWFchbW/5bx6LxgaTC5mOWZ/Bg6O Ou5gZcRd7IaLHZYJFWJj3smo3KdljhjywCHHEmfVBrRBUox8quDh0M9uj0371NcSYAb+ f1y2629siY/M0WW9OiNmL+4oRqQuAjteBeN+6AbLSh0HeEsKXU/HCHrg3G5KmakzRJ7f 4F5JOoWY0iSxZSr0BMJC/wNqsJv0/Y889YH2oAn/CpByfMppdM0WfwXlcnYnC7yYM6mO C7ZOqRAM0l90K2ptCa8SPbwSgYZMlPUy3lIEHlvoSR5Hi9aWl48rqisdqx02+5lzwmd1 Ik/Q== X-Received: by 10.180.205.162 with SMTP id lh2mr5305085wic.14.1414776265180; Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (p3E9E7B34.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [62.158.123.52]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m6sm13072582wiy.16.2014.10.31.10.24.24 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5453C5C8.3020904@googlemail.com> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:24:24 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 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] alternative kernels References: <54536D16.6090401@libertytrek.org> <8373843.QKcfWZa5E2@andromeda> <15724934.eWR0Wdy2P9@wstn> In-Reply-To: <15724934.eWR0Wdy2P9@wstn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bc8b2f86-a42f-470b-99cf-343aa70180c9 X-Archives-Hash: 52c772c9b21ecd7fbf13609e5393a1c1 Am 31.10.2014 um 17:16 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely caused >> by some changes in used filesystems instead of any other cause. >> If I really wanted to, I might get it to work, but I don't see the point in >> spending time on this. >> Grub starts the boot process and then, afaik, disappears. >> Which is sufficient for me. > My grub-0.99 lets me choose from four kernels and two or three run levels at > boot time, and grub-2 can't handle this yet, or it couldn't the last time I > checked. I don't suggest that everyone has a similar need, but at least in > some cases the old grub does still have a place. > grub2 best feature is the 'run mkconfig after each kernel update or you will boot something old and outdated' I really love that. Or its configs. Once grub's configs were nice, clean and easy. grub2 put away with those shenanigans. Seriously, I regularly ask myself what brain sickness infected those poor guys.