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 C4DE513989D for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 131D4141C1; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:55:28 +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 D94F7E08A8 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUdyt-000228-0p for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:55:23 +0200 Received: from 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net ([67.130.15.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:55:23 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:55:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20150826152610.GA573@apio.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: e6fffaf1-7e13-49f6-9696-43ff73bca52f X-Archives-Hash: 1040f4a240b5a39915aadea1f6dcd3d2 On 2015-08-26, James wrote: > 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? Yep. In theory the same thing could come up with respect to 64/32 bit SPARC or something, but in practice it's ARM64 > On Arm64 you'd most likely want to run 32 bit binaries. Some people do. Some people don't > 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 ? The main benefit of ARM64 w/o 32-bit libs is that you can't run acroread. ;) If only evince could "print current view", I could ditch acroread... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! What I need is a at MATURE RELATIONSHIP with a gmail.com FLOPPY DISK ...