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

2010-06-23 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 wonder how anyone can

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

2010-06-23 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

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,

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 And I didn't use the

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 kernel

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 drink

[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

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 paragraphs in

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 paragraphs in some one-off

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

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 anyone can feel that

[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

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