On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:16:05 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
...unlike grocers' apostrophe's, which crop up everywhere and are far
more grating for me.
Agreed, except that I think you mean greengrocers'.
Both are valid. Greengrocers' is the more common, grocers' is shorter.
When you are
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
It's easy enough: its = belonging to it; it's = it is/was/has.
The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession.
The confusion arises because, when used with a name, an apostrophe is
needed for a possessive. Of course, if
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On 12.08.2012 05:10, Dale wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think.
emerge grub-static and then do the install as per the boot
loader instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine
then.
Good
As far as I recall the issues are with 64 bit nomultilib only. I think
I used grub-legacy on amd64 multilib without issues, though I'm not
sure since I use grub2 since 1.98 came out (without issues, by the way)
You are correct. On a no-multilib 64 bit system you cannot compile
grub:1 - you
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:03:38AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
It's easy enough: its = belonging to it; it's = it is/was/has.
The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession.
The confusion arises because, when used
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:14:11PM -0500, Dale wrote:
I have always used GRUB splashimage without genkernel and without anything
special to get it going other than the correct path in
/boot/grub/grub.conf;
e.g.
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,9)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
On Monday 13 Aug 2012 18:46:22 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:14:11PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Just a thought. Could it be that the text and the background is the
same color? If you put white text on a white background, all you see is
white which looks blank, empty or
On Monday 13 August 2012 09:03:38 Neil Bothwick wrote:
The confusion arises because, when used with a name, an apostrophe is
needed for a possessive.
The confusion arises because the apostrophe has two functions, which
collide in its/it's. Who can tell /a priori/ which applies in any given
Frank Steinmetzger writes:
So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m having: I
cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Frank Steinmetzger writes:
So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
install from scratch of course). There’s one
On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 11:01:59 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Frank Steinmetzger writes:
So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
[snip]
PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, but
are
you aware that they scanned your address book and spammed around about it?
There are some of us who don’t want to be part of any
On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 19:52:26 Michael Mol wrote:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
[snip]
PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, but
are
you aware that they scanned your address book and spammed around about
it?
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 19:52:26 Michael Mol wrote:
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de
wrote:
[snip]
PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently,
but
are
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Mick wrote:
So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m
having: I cannot see the
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:52:32 +0200
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing
active
---^
*cough* *wink wink*
blush
damn, I got that one the wrong way round. again.
/blush
--
Alan McKinnon
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Mick wrote:
So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m
having: I
On Monday 13 August 2012 00:08:16 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:52:32 +0200
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing
active
---^
*cough* *wink wink*
damn, I got that
From Kindle so very short response for now.
1) Was this disk previously used for 32-bit?
2) For 64-bit I've always used grub-static.
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 06:33:03PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
From Kindle so very short response for now.
1) Was this disk previously used for 32-bit?
Yup. Well, I installed the 64 bit into a temporary partition that I created,
so I still had the working 32 bit system in case something goes
All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think. emerge
grub-static and then do the install as per the boot loader
instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine then.
Good luck.
Mark Knecht wrote:
All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think. emerge
grub-static and then do the install as per the boot loader
instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine then.
Good luck.
When I did my install, I used grub-static too. I never tried the plain
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