Alec Ten Harmsel <alec <at> alectenharmsel.com> writes: > > 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. Ok this is interesting. Is this only an AMD64 thing? On Arm64 you'd most likely want to run 32 bit binaries. This is profile [11} right? default/linux/amd64/13.0/no-multilib I'm OK with this, but what is the benefit of such profile selection:: curiously I have no experience with the profile selection, despite running quite a few amd64 system. What would the benefits be running this profile on older amd64 hardware ? > > AMD64 Team; <amd64 <at> gentoo.org> > > grub-1 is not available on no-multilib profiles; I had not seen this, but so I guess this is well documented......? Does that profile selection prevent one from selecting grub-1 during and installation? OFF TOPIC On another note: have you seen spark-1.5 ? Cleaner build? http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Fwd-ANNOUNCE-Spark-1-5-0-preview-package-td13683.html .............................................................. James
