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Alan McKinnon said:
syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for
desktop use
Mick writes:
PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more
verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting?
Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E
to edit, and remove the 'quiet' kernel parameter. The Grub menu still
does not
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:43:32 -0700, Keith Dart wrote:
I use syslinux everywhere, and on my desktop. It is already well
documented on their website and wiki.
At the time I really needed to know all about isolinux, on a tight
deadline, the wiki was down, and remained down for the next month's
On Monday 11 Jun 2012 08:16:49 Alex Schuster wrote:
Mick writes:
PS. [OT] what key am I supposed to press to be able to see some more
verbose output on the console while *ubuntu is booting?
Press the shift key during startup, so the Grub menu will appear. Then E
to edit, and remove the
Re , Philip Webb said:
I recently reorganised my HDD to avoid having to use initramfs .
Having done so, I still have some spare space on the HDD,
which seemed a good place to have a couple of other distros installed
in case I want to use Flash (my Gentoo is 64-bit) or show Linux to
friends.
On 10-Jun-12 12:47, Keith Dart wrote:
I use Lilo -- it's simple if you're not continually changing the
set-up --
LILO is ancient history. syslinux (extlinux) is a much better solution
these days.
Honestly, never heard of it. Gentoo Handbook lists only GRUB and
LILO as bootloaders. Is
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:41:37 +0200
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10-Jun-12 12:47, Keith Dart wrote:
I use Lilo -- it's simple if you're not continually changing the
set-up --
LILO is ancient history. syslinux (extlinux) is a much better
solution these days.
Honestly, never
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for
desktop use which explains why the Handbook makes no real effort to
document them.
One of the main
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
liveCDs and that sort of thing. They never found much traction for
desktop use which
On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 22:48:32 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:08:24 +0100
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:48:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
syslinux/extlinux and friends are more suited for embedded devices,
liveCDs and that sort of thing.
I recently reorganised my HDD to avoid having to use initramfs .
Having done so, I still have some spare space on the HDD,
which seemed a good place to have a couple of other distros installed
in case I want to use Flash (my Gentoo is 64-bit) or show Linux to friends.
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