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 1RCCbq-00022P-JM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:45:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7781A21C10E; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:45:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC14921C0D3 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so5127193wyf.40 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=k6CYtM2v2fQeYydlLwJzkt/+j0bJLlTayiRcebHDuuE=; b=dHJk0g22WN0qGUK8eZtSNMRM9dLkMB4JqJV1sFM/RzNU+YBEmI6Hu6Lu8D7m9+RgCc ZdxCUN9G7YN/H8FZ6CoEFSqtg3osVV9kRsZjB9MVkDxB9dAarVqmNfFD0VcN1w7foXu0 xTPjYvTkLZhBRpc1ofaQycJH8F+G31ebdI0gQ= Received: by 10.227.23.194 with SMTP id s2mr1797110wbb.99.1318002248109; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:44:08 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.59.193 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 08:43:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E8F1859.60709@gmail.com> 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> <4E8F1859.60709@gmail.com> From: Paul Hartman Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:43:48 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ioIGchjIVTf3rZlQ1KDLEIRyBJU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2fe0f3629920404fda0f9e82e2674254 On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Dale wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> On 10/07/2011 10:29 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> >>> Why don't you upgrade to lilo instead? =A0It's got a single configurati= on >>> file which is short and relatively simple, and it just works. =A0My >>> 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? =3D) >> >> 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 thi= ngs > too. =A0I used lilo when I first started using Linux. =A0I can't imagine = me ever > going back to that thing. Back in the mid 90's I used to use a boot floppy to dual-boot, I think it was LILO... Floppy in, it booted Debian, floppy out, it booted OS/2. One day, someone took the floppy and reformatted it to copy some files onto it; that seriously hindered my ability to boot Linux at that time. :)