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 1L0Jyz-0006Fx-1A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:58:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24E2EE052B; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:58:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82B9E052B for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:58:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id z25so285409ele.1 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:58:23 -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:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=Dkf04Kv6m56KPOUKQT6IbcVHmjCiewTEtGUpEoFtXeQ=; b=MYddwCZpXzTSEoDRtO8w2DC2LiKoUssfKttcn1E+g4kwqKl2onhjVKjU39Inp7mB2T VdFKh8wcgH2XYRnPQevVxsJbs4BhWGUbjdStERdC7uZpcwp59Pkq6MbSMoSdAXNBfGIP fodadbkK5xjg6y3MMZCMNKn0+NH4bbY/yD7so= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=avhu+NkWSqeYh9UTQg7Y6TR/PFzRnWuQcFPWEhVgI+8R/j/MggUsJV4PlT4bNEpEai nqv7lJGcRsMDlKpK4lZgbLey4z2BzjUBeHMYc/d4uVEI/fd2lAEzpMKj1xxDzYbFL5m2 Rpvv/MhsjMZ3soQXegqrFQqT16l/Sr7WWZvg0= Received: by 10.142.166.1 with SMTP id o1mr3586703wfe.337.1226512702582; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:58:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.214.13 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:58:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <58965d8a0811120958k121d4bcraa89441de8c12f27@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:58:22 -0600 From: "Paul Hartman" Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk In-Reply-To: <491B1777.8060505@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <79e3aefb0811112359l63b077d8k858a146af90c5e23@mail.gmail.com> <20081112145441.GE1188@muc.de> <491B1777.8060505@gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: a15cb3cc70633594 X-Archives-Salt: 09645c17-858b-4bd1-87b9-c39d98b10e45 X-Archives-Hash: 54d8427138d8a1db6de6b8820e1c6afe On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Dale wrote: > 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. I have my grub menu set up with 2 kernel choices; one points to/vmlinuz and the other points to /vmlinuz.old, that way i don't ever have to edit anything. Comes in handy if the new kernel blows up :)