Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-10 Thread Wols Lists
On 09/10/20 23:49, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-10-09, Ashley Dixon wrote: > >> Especially with `grub-mkconfig`, you don't have to manually edit >> configuration >> files at all, which doesn't seem to be an option for users of LILO. > > I always had a lot of problems getting

[gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-10-09, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Especially with `grub-mkconfig`, you don't have to manually edit > configuration > files at all, which doesn't seem to be an option for users of LILO. I always had a lot of problems getting grub-mkconfig to work. The documentation about various options

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Screen reader users will want to uncomment the GRUB-TUNE line in /etc/default/grub and then run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg if for no other reason they get an indication their computer is willing to boot before the screen reader comes on. A friend has a system without a pc speaker so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 14:13:05 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-10-09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > I'd say you're better off using a UEFI boot manager. If you use > > systemd, add the boot USE flag to get its boot manager, formerly > > gummiboot. If you don't use systemd you can install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Dale
Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 02:13:05PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2020-10-09, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> All are in portage and easy to set up in a way that is shocking to anyone >>> used to GRUB. >> Grub's actually quite easy to set up if you skip all the auto-magical >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 02:13:05PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-10-09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > All are in portage and easy to set up in a way that is shocking to anyone > > used to GRUB. > > Grub's actually quite easy to set up if you skip all the auto-magical > stuff and just manually

[gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-10-09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'd say you're better off using a UEFI boot manager. If you use systemd, > add the boot USE flag to get its boot manager, formerly gummiboot. If you > don't use systemd you can install the boot manager on its own as > systemd-boot. Or try rEFInd. All are in