[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Alec Ten Harmsel <alec <at> alectenharmsel.com> writes:

> > So some vintage installs/upgrades got me thinking. What does Grub-2
> > offer that grub-1 does not. I cannot think of anything that I need
> > from Grub-2 not mbr, nor efi board booting. Not dual/multi booting
> > as grub-1 excels on that, and not on drives larger than 2 T.

> > So what is the (hardware scenario)  where grub-2 and it's problems
> > are superior to grub-1?  I'm having trouble thinking of that
> > situation.......?

> 64-bit hardware with the no-multilib profile[1]. I have no "-bin" packages
> on my system, nor do I run any pre-built 3rd party applications, so I
> waste no time compiling worthless 32-bit libraries. Therefore, I need
> grub 2.

Ok this is interesting. Is this only an AMD64 thing? On Arm64 you'd
most likely want to run 32 bit binaries. This is profile [11} right?

  default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib

I'm OK with this, but what is the benefit of such profile selection::
curiously I have no experience with the profile selection, despite
running quite a few amd64 system. What would the benefits be 
running this profile on older amd64 hardware ?


> > AMD64 Team; <amd64 <at> gentoo.org>
> > grub-1 is not available on no-multilib profiles;

I had not seen this, but so I guess this is well documented......?
Does that profile selection prevent one from selecting grub-1 during
and installation?

OFF TOPIC
On another note: have you seen spark-1.5 ? Cleaner build?
http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Fwd-ANNOUNCE-Spark-1-5-0-preview-package-td13683.html
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James