On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 03:10:55PM +0000, James wrote: > James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > > > So on one particular (openrc) system, I have no interest in grub-2 > > or any other bootloaders. I see grub is both grub 1 and grub 2. > > So some vintage installs/upgrades got me thinking. What does Grub-2 > offer that grub-1 does not. I cannot think of anything that I need > from Grub-2 not mbr, nor efi board booting. Not dual/multi booting > as grub-1 excels on that, and not on drives larger than 2 T. > > > So what is the (hardware scenario) where grub-2 and it's problems > are superior to grub-1? I'm having trouble thinking of that > situation.......?
64-bit hardware with the no-multilib profile[1]. I have no "-bin" packages on my system, nor do I run any pre-built 3rd party applications, so I waste no time compiling worthless 32-bit libraries. Therefore, I need grub 2. Alec 1. > emerge -p grub:0 > > .... > > AMD64 Team; <am...@gentoo.org> > grub-1 is not available on no-multilib profiles;
