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 1L0XPY-0000ht-4w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:18:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7DB2E0384; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635C1E0384 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id i2so791774mue.6 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:18:41 -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:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=sReqs3FXrZe2gK8FpVvqvsaBMk/m6gGE+psm2JoXcQw=; b=bPXTe7Y2O3DipWeirWODgFOJBfeBbuBxhvEq1DNLxaoe09EuGeMWrYY296wdO1r7iP P3qs9EVpHbEywG871CPiv3DEd2YwWNa8VDJY05prkSLP1rnmnz9ol2O9Rt3DbgQq6U3j IDW+LQpNIM64ovdhTh8SNkVanH1hh7qc4h1lg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=e9EBZTJviYh6I+YJMOyZJ4+dE2nZpyRwm/6HeGBsfvAMDmPjSSp7wfqLtecSU3AxTT dkMYlWhQ326z+QvQDp6ja/MmCEcZ7aPr22WvWXrM23vqXTNTEBUXaWpgqwye9wOtJb3p S+c8TO1H0iJF5dbf6vKOQsQ/fiCPEGo+fn5t4= Received: by 10.187.163.5 with SMTP id q5mr3314605fao.8.1226564321172; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:18:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.187.158.20 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:18:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <79e3aefb0811130018j28b68f5cw9f47654475f06b47@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:18:41 +0200 From: "Dirk Uys" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk In-Reply-To: <20081112145441.GE1188@muc.de> 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> X-Archives-Salt: b0909e9e-3fc6-416f-87c1-73375337b823 X-Archives-Hash: 1c0532098aefbbf7a3cd5c7dfe2e42a4 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, 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 > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). I was just curious. I like having choices, so I wouldn't opt for leaving out LILO from gentoo. Regards Dirk