Another note, GRUB2 is more similar to Lilo than you think.
They're both boot loaders. Of course they're similar. But they have
some serious differences. Serious enough that many folks, such as
myself, choose to stick with LILO.
Good luck in patching LILO to work without a
On 2013-05-21 04:03 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 5/20/2013 4:30 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
MIPS and ARM machines don't have a traditional BIOS either,
Yes, that was my point. You'll probably never see UEFI on these
platforms. So LILO could be used basically forever.
Hardly, because LILO
On 5/21/2013 2:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2013-05-21 04:03 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 5/20/2013 4:30 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
MIPS and ARM machines don't have a traditional BIOS either,
Yes, that was my point. You'll probably never see UEFI on these
platforms. So LILO could be
On 2013-05-20 07:26 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote:
The Debian developers (and many other distros) have chosen to put their
support behind GRUB2 which allows for (please correct me, if I'm wrong)
features like UEFI support and better support for
On 5/20/2013 1:48 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2013-05-20 07:26 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote:
The Debian developers (and many other distros) have chosen to put their
support behind GRUB2 which allows for (please correct me, if I'm wrong)
features like
On 2013-05-20 10:44 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 5/20/2013 1:48 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2013-05-20 07:26 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote:
The Debian developers (and many other distros) have chosen to put their
support behind GRUB2 which allows for
On Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:28 -0400 (EDT), staticsafe wrote:
Althought the vga=ext option is deprecated with the linux command in
Grub2, it is still available with the linux16 command in Grub2 as it is
with the linux command in Grub-legacy. If Grub2 displays vga=ext is
deprecated. Use set
On Sun, 19 May 2013 23:15:54 -0400 (EDT), Dirk wrote:
but... i ask myself: /why/ i am supposed to read and memorize all this
when even /lilo/ is still working...?
lilo, then grub, then grub2... no real change in functionality... a
kernel gets booted.. that's it... but all three function
On Mon, 20 May 2013 02:48:55 -0400 (EDT), Sven wrote:
Good luck in patching LILO to work without a BIOS.
It is true that lilo requires a BIOS interface. However, many
EFI/UEFI machines also provide a BIOS for forward compatibility;
so lilo may still work.
However, for those EFI/UEFI machines
On 5/20/2013 4:30 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2013-05-20 10:44 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 5/20/2013 1:48 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2013-05-20 07:26 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote:
The Debian developers (and many other distros) have chosen to put
hello,
do I see that right that vga=ask has been removed in grub2 without
offering a working replacement? because all those gfxpayload=bla bs i
found online surely doesn't work...
so i reverted to grub-legacy...
doesn't anybody check the crap that makes it into debian anymore?
because when
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:59:43AM +0200, Dirk wrote:
hello,
do I see that right that vga=ask has been removed in grub2 without
offering a working replacement? because all those gfxpayload=bla bs
i found online surely doesn't work...
what branch of debian do you use ? if you are using now
On Mon, 20 May 2013 02:59:43 +0200
Dirk noi...@pwnoogle.com wrote:
hello,
do I see that right that vga=ask has been removed in grub2 without
offering a working replacement? because all those gfxpayload=bla bs i
found online surely doesn't work...
so i reverted to grub-legacy...
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:59:43AM +0200, Dirk wrote:
hello,
do I see that right that vga=ask has been removed in grub2 without
offering a working replacement? because all those gfxpayload=bla bs
i found online surely doesn't work...
so i reverted to grub-legacy...
doesn't anybody
On 05/20/13 04:57, staticsafe wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:59:43AM +0200, Dirk wrote:
hello,
do I see that right that vga=ask has been removed in grub2 without
offering a working replacement? because all those gfxpayload=bla bs
i found online surely doesn't work...
so i reverted to
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 05:15:54AM +0200, Dirk wrote:
On 05/20/13 04:57, staticsafe wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:59:43AM +0200, Dirk wrote:
hello,
do I see that right that vga=ask has been removed in grub2 without
offering a working replacement? because all those gfxpayload=bla bs
i
On 5/19/2013 11:04 PM, staticsafe wrote:
You can use Lilo if you so choose,
I do.
but don't expect integration
(specifically kernel package installation scripts).
I don't. I roll my own kernels sans initrd. lilo in MBR, vmlinuz in
ext2 /boot partition.
The Debian developers (and many
On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 00:26 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
They're both boot loaders. Of course they're similar. But they have
some serious differences. Serious enough that many folks, such as
myself, choose to stick with LILO. If I had to come up with one word to
describe today's LILO users,
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