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 974441384C0 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:55:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C54D142CE; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io0-f175.google.com (mail-io0-f175.google.com [209.85.223.175]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17C2C1423A for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ioej130 with SMTP id j130so7759875ioe.3 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:55:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1Sr/Pdw82mfw1rwHn6x+In0PvvFbuvQ5ES3mIl3bnuc=; b=KSTEWbTYAJFQ2gYfqpVA/q0FLtMF4feyh8qPSMnD8fq2vWraAlF9Xhks2wmJCc9iIZ qaK0BC4UnnfVe99vp4RyYe33cRNQURcCeUT3t1pxAtb9f4kgMZRmUV1JtLb27C84a4pz kDCRUUcIk6RUqKLQ/y/wzA5pBS1WTrOMlRRazWZb7hzu2TvJDvZPRxHHzrLnRwFCKFxb 7D/j2Ik1rsiM7xH7JH2es02DAEzhhu8++HmuUTz1OK+wNEKaOW+F2e3XRp7GkIkQfaf9 1Q2e60S12IHQmwUy0s+CDDWnk/gDHoPA9e82/11STtxUU+ZrVUJAHAyZ9lTvCN9dRHuQ 1iRw== 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 X-Received: by 10.107.164.153 with SMTP id d25mr13451648ioj.189.1440762944490; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.79.116.8 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:55:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55DF9EEB.2080403@comcast.net> References: <50376531.11846538.1440694215112.JavaMail.zimbra@comcast.net> <55DF9EEB.2080403@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:55:44 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 From: Tom H To: Gentoo User Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 741af8e6-3e6a-44e1-883a-0d3aa9c2539a X-Archives-Hash: 78496294265f0b2c688c88f7ac48589d On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Michel Catudal wrot= e: > Le 2015-08-27 15:18, Fernando Rodriguez a =C3=A9crit : >> >> Who are you to tell them what they should work on? They're acting like >> FOSS developers, many of whom work for free or underpaid so they work on >> whatever the fuck they want. The problem with FOSS is that we have too m= any >> idiots that like to rant about what they don't like instead of doing >> something about it. If all those energies went to improving the software >> FOSS would be so much better. > > No one is asking them to do that. As mentioned before it works with some > override. A solution to the problem would be to remove the arrogance towa= rd > people who want grub on a partition and remove the part in the installer > that refuses to install it unless you give it an override. If I say write > the bootloader on the partition, that should work as requested, they can > still write a comment that they do not like us doing it but should not ke= ep > us from doing it. If it doesn't work we will see it soon enough. So you want the Gentoo grub2 maintainer to patch grub2 to remove the warning about partitions and the need for "--force" so that you can use "grub2-install /dev/sda1"? Isn't simpleer and more efficient for you to use "--force"?!