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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:18:41 +0200
From: "Dirk Uys" <dirkcuys@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> 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 probably have been superseded by something else.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