Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-21 Thread Dirk
On 06/21/13 01:15, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:09:27 -0400 (EDT), Dirk wrote: how does grub boot a kernel better than lilo? this is all [expletive deleted]... the linux community is now full of people who speak like some marketing shills... freedesktop reinvents windows badly

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:09:27 -0400 (EDT), Dirk wrote: > > how does grub boot a kernel better than lilo? > > this is all [expletive deleted]... the linux community is now full of people > who > speak like some marketing shills... > > freedesktop reinvents windows badly.. > > and now people are

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Joe
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:06:07 -0500 Conrad Nelson wrote: > > GRUB 2 does this... but its recovery console is next to unusable. > It's better to use a LiveCD or something, chroot onto your installed > system, and reinstall/reconfigure grub. Last I heard LILO didn't even > have much in the way of

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 17:09 +0200, Dirk wrote: > fuck you all Hi Dirk, why f*!#in' us all? FWIW some, especially advanced Linux users claim that only Syslinux is a sane bootloader and btw. nobody needs to use GRUB with the update thingy or even by the used distro. GRUB legacy, Lilo and tons of ot

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Dirk
> >Primitive no longer cuts it. What you need is a boot loader that can handle all the crap that gets thrown at it. The boot loader that does it best wins. > > On UEFI systems, use rEFInd (Even better: Use rEFInd to load the kernel directly to boot itself.). On MBR systems GRUB still does

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 06/18/2013 11:35 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/06/13 10:35 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need features other than loading the kernel... what crucial work do you do with the features of grub? spreadshe

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:35:23PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 18/06/13 10:35 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: > >On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: > >>you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need > >>features other than loading the kernel... > >> > >>what crucial work do you do w

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/06/13 10:35 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need features other than loading the kernel... what crucial work do you do with the features of grub? spreadsheets? presentations? project managing? or d

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Lars Noodén
On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: > you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need > features other than loading the kernel... > > what crucial work do you do with the features of grub? spreadsheets? > presentations? project managing? or do you play it like a text adventur

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Dirk
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 00:01:49 Dirk wrote: >> Grub 2.00 (unstable) failed me the 2nd time now and resulted in a >> unuseable system showing only the grub rescue console that does >> *nothing* >> >> Grub 2.00 does everything now and nothing right... not even load a >> kernel.. >> >> That is shit

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Dirk
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:01:49 +0200 Dirk wrote: i updated from the old unstable to the new unstable during the last stable release... everything went smooth except the grub 2.00 update... after reboot it ended up showing the worthless grub rescue console... Here's your first problem: there i

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Michael Tsang
On Tuesday 18 June 2013 00:01:49 Dirk wrote: > >> Grub 2.00 (unstable) failed me the 2nd time now and resulted in a > >> unuseable system showing only the grub rescue console that does > >> *nothing* > >> > >> Grub 2.00 does everything now and nothing right... not even load a > >> kernel.. > >> >

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-17 Thread Joe
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:01:49 +0200 Dirk wrote: > > i updated from the old unstable to the new unstable during the last > stable release... everything went smooth except the grub 2.00 > update... after reboot it ended up showing the worthless grub rescue > console... > Here's your first proble

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-17 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 03:58:30PM +0100, Dirk wrote: > Hello, > > my beloved Microsoft reputation management shills \:D/ > > How is freedesktop reinventing Windows badly today? > > I know, right? > > :D ? Sounds like you do. > Grub 2.00 (unstable) failed me the 2nd time now and resulted