Quoting Joel Roth (jo...@pobox.com):
> I'm personally happy with lilo, and Devuan allows me to use it.
I love lilo. I should note, however, that Edward's requirements include
GPT (GUID Partition Table) support, which might be possible with lilo or
might be problematic. Sources differ:
http://
On 01/10/16 12:44, Edward Bartolo wrote:
As far as I
am concerned, as long as a boot-loader can read GPT and MSDOS disks
plus extN partitions, that should be enough.
That's nice. You have a beautifully simple use case.
*I* need a bootloader that can sort through various partition/RAID
confi
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 06:44:21AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Like most people on this mailing list I am shocked to notice the
> increasing bloat that is going into boot-loaders like grub*.
> Boot-loaders are becoming like a stripped down operating system
> instead of just containing t
Quoting Edward Bartolo (edb...@gmail.com):
> Like most people on this mailing list I am shocked to notice the
> increasing bloat that is going into boot-loaders like grub*.
> Boot-loaders are becoming like a stripped down operating system
> instead of just containing the minimal necessary function
Hi,
Like most people on this mailing list I am shocked to notice the
increasing bloat that is going into boot-loaders like grub*.
Boot-loaders are becoming like a stripped down operating system
instead of just containing the minimal necessary functionality to
understand disk and partition formatti
On 09/30/2016 11:28 AM, hellekin wrote:
>>
>> appear to be HTML formatted. HTML formatted? Sy what???
>>
Here's what RFC 2046 has to say:
Systems should recognize that the content of the various parts are
interchangeable. Systems should choose the "best" type based on the
local environmen
On 09/28/2016 03:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>
> For me, discourse is nothing but silliness. The discourse summary and
> discourse Digest emails I occasionally get are hard to read, boring,
> and appear to be HTML formatted. HTML formatted? Sy what???
>
If they appear to be HTML formatted, y