Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Joshua D Doll <joshua.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll <joshua.d...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and
written. I
feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read
and
follow what the doc is trying to convey.
--Joshua Doll
I agree. Everything except the grub part. It's well written but it
requires more knowledge about the actual hardware than the rest of it,
especially if you do it wrong and have to recover.
I helped my brother install Ubuntu and the lack of control over grub
was frustrating. It just did what it wanted to do without asking
(which was install grub onto the wrong drive with the wrong drive
numbers, because the BIOS boot order did not match Ubuntu's detected
drive order). If that drive had been part of a RAID or had some
important metadata in the boot sector, it could have been a disaster.
No distro is perfect. Gentoo is perfect for me, though :)
I think you mean to say no boot loader is perfect. ;-)
--Joshua Doll
The ubuntu installer did not tell me which drive it was installing the
boot loader onto, nor did it give me a choice -- it chose the one it
thought was appropriate (and it was wrong).
If you google for ubuntu grub sata ide you can see it happens to
nearly everyone who has a mixture of IDE and SATA drives where they
boot from IDE but linux gives sda to sata and sdc to IDE or whatever.
Actually the kernel has assigned most hdd, etc. some form of sd* for
awhile now. The only thing that is labeled different, that I've seen in
awhile is my dvd burner. Anyways getting to my statement I was being
facetious. I can't think of a single piece of software that is perfect,
except for maybe "hello, world!", but that's not very useful.
--Joshua Doll
