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 B775113989D for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A1EA141E5; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F764E07DF for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcw7-00035m-Jr for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:48:27 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:48:27 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:48:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20150826152610.GA573@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1) X-Archives-Salt: 8668ebd2-3012-4ffd-9dc1-7f2c9f32a3a5 X-Archives-Hash: 1e5684efae3a164858fd7125c184b44c Alec Ten Harmsel 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; 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 .............................................................. James