Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, Bill Longman wrote: >I'm sure I can easily start a raging, apocalyptic forest fire by mentioning "man" and "info" > in the same sentence there is no way to reply to this without using lots of highly forbidden words. Also death threats. So I will try to stay calm and dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 09:37 PM, kashani wrote: > For the record only Sun servers have ever made me utter, "Let me get > this straight. I have to update the firware on the POWER SUPPLY too?!?" > E6500s circa '99. :-) And the "hotswap" E250 power supply. You know, the one that you have to tell the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Am 23.06.2010 08:00, schrieb Rod: > On 23/06/2010 3:43 PM, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: >> >>> Is there a GRUB to GRUB2 migration guide somewhere in the Gentoo >>> Documentation? >>> >>> BR / P-E >>> >> I did it 2 weeks ago with lil help of: >> >> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 >> >> An

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-23 Thread Stroller
On 23 Jun 2010, at 07:00, Rod wrote: On 23/06/2010 3:43 PM, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Is there a GRUB to GRUB2 migration guide somewhere in the Gentoo Documentation? BR / P-E I did it 2 weeks ago with lil help of: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 And I didn't use the multislot, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Rod
On 23/06/2010 3:43 PM, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: Is there a GRUB to GRUB2 migration guide somewhere in the Gentoo Documentation? BR / P-E I did it 2 weeks ago with lil help of: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 And I didn't use the multislot, that was unnecessary, since os-pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Am 22.06.2010 21:22, schrieb Per-Erik Westerberg: > tis 2010-06-22 klockan 12:15 -0700 skrev walt: >> On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: >>> Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved > grub is. I won

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread kashani
On 6/22/2010 1:46 PM, Bill Longman wrote: Because of EFI firmware, that's why mobos would effect it. Like the Sun Openboot PROM docs say somewhere: "BIOS? We don't need no stinkin' BIOS". Same with the lame x86 status quo. At least nowadays we could have two different versions of it on board and

[gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread walt
On 06/22/2010 12:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: And what have mobos to do with the fact that whenever GNU lay their dirty hands on a project they will not rest until they turned something decent and useful into an overly complex, drowned in obscure options and hard to configure mess? I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Bill Longman
On 06/22/2010 12:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, walt wrote: >> On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: >>> Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved > grub is. I wonder how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Ivan S. Freitas
Anyone tried gujin http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ ? I think it may become an alernative to grub2, but I never found anyone who have used it. -- == Ivan Sichmann Freitas Engenharia de Computação 2009 UNICAMP http://identi.ca/ivansichmann Grupo Pró Softwa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 22 Juni 2010, walt wrote: > On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: > > Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > >>> And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved > >>> grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six > >>> paragra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread Per-Erik Westerberg
tis 2010-06-22 klockan 12:15 -0700 skrev walt: > On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: > > Tanstaafl wrote: > >> On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > >>> And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved > >>> grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Legacy GRUB vs GRUB2

2010-06-22 Thread walt
On 06/22/2010 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-18 12:17 PM, Bill Longman wrote: And finally, don't even mention how braindead the "new" improved grub is. I wonder how anyone can feel that having to write six paragraphs> in some one-off bash-like language, which needs to be debu