[aklug] Re: Friday night Linux

2003 (give or take a year) was also my first experience w/ grub, also w/ Gentoo.

I don't know that I exactly figured it out, but I did get it working. I've been using it ever since.

Saying I was enamored with it would not be correct. I think I'm a little like the Fedora developer who's attitude about it seemed to be, "It works, why screw with it?"

All 3 seem perfectly capable of bootstrapping the OSes I use. That's all I use 'em for. What do I care that grub2 will do an Irish Jig for me as well?

Jim G

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Hill" <bruce@slackwarebox.com>
To: "Jim Gribbin" <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 8, 2011 2:39:01 PM
Subject: Re: [aklug] Friday night Linux

On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 10:52:40AM -0900, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> Kind of quiet last night. A couple of college students on break, Damien
> and myself.
>
> Daamien and I got to talking about why Fedora is still using Grub v1
> instead of v2.
>
> I looked it up and someone had asked the question on a Fedora Developer
> list. A developer told him because Grub is turning into abandon-ware, no
> active development.
>
> Just checked it out on Freshmeat, the developer appears correct. The
> only 'update' release since 2006 has been a license change to GLP3 in
> 2008.
>
> I wonder what we'll use next...
>
> Jim G

When I first switched to Linux in 2003, I could never get grub configured,
and it was so foreign to what my BIOS and the Linux kernel called my hard
drives, i.e. (hd0,0) for grub versus /dev/sda1 for Linux. And those grub
drives change from installing grub in the OS to booting with Linux.

Therefore, LiLO has been my bootloader forever.

This past year I gave grub a try, both versions, and it was the same. Such
a mess they've made. LiLO hasn't required a total re-write, because it
never was that messed up. It Just Works (TM).

On previous Gentoo installs it was necessary to wrestle grub to the blood
to get 4 OSes on 3 drives with a RAID array to boot properly in grub. And
still there was no stanza to reboot automatically for a kernel panic, the
splash screen and framebuffer text didn't work the same on all of them,
ect.

Just repartitioned my laptop in anticipation of moving to America with no
other PC for a while, and did an install of Gentoo with LiLO. It was so
easy, and took less than 3 minutes including downloading and installing
LiLO, and as usual, It Just Works (TM)!

Peace,
Bruce

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