On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:16:05 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > ...unlike grocers' apostrophe's, which crop up everywhere and are far
> > more grating for me.
>
> Agreed, except that I think you mean greengrocers'.
Both are valid. Greengrocers' is the more common, grocers' is shorter.
When you a
On Monday 13 August 2012 09:03:38 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> The confusion arises because, when used with a name, an apostrophe is
> needed for a possessive.
The confusion arises because the apostrophe has two functions, which
collide in its/it's. Who can tell /a priori/ which applies in any given
On Monday 13 Aug 2012 18:46:22 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:14:11PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> > Just a thought. Could it be that the text and the background is the
> > same color? If you put white text on a white background, all you see is
> > white which looks blank, empty
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:14:11PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> I have always used GRUB splashimage without genkernel and without anything
> >> special to get it going other than the correct path in
> >> /boot/grub/grub.conf;
> >> e.g.
> >>
> >> default 0
> >> timeout 30
> >> splashimage=(hd0,9)/boo
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:03:38AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> > It's easy enough: "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is/was/has".
> > The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession.
>
> The confusion arises bec
> As far as I recall the issues are with 64 bit nomultilib only. I think
> I used grub-legacy on amd64 multilib without issues, though I'm not
> sure since I use grub2 since 1.98 came out (without issues, by the way)
You are correct. On a no-multilib 64 bit system you cannot compile
grub:1 - you m
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 12.08.2012 05:10, Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think.
>> emerge grub-static and then do the install as per the boot
>> loader instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine
>> then.
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> It's easy enough: "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is/was/has".
> The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession.
The confusion arises because, when used with a name, an apostrophe is
needed for a possessive. Of c
On Monday 13 August 2012 00:08:16 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:52:32 +0200
>
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > > > When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing
> > > > active
> >
> > ---^
> > *cough* *wink wink*
>
> damn, I got th
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Mick wrote:
>
> So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
> from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
> install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:52:32 +0200
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > > When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing
> > > active
> ---^
> *cough* *wink wink*
damn, I got that one the wrong way round. again.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmai
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Mick wrote:
> > > > So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
> > > > from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
> > > > install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m
> > > > having: I ca
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 19:52:26 Michael Mol wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger
> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently,
> but
> > > are
> > > you aware that th
On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 19:52:26 Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, but
> > are
> > you aware that they scanned your address book and spammed around about
> > it? The
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
[snip]
> PS @Michael Mol: it is nice for you that you joined Google+ recently, but
> are
> you aware that they scanned your address book and spammed around about it?
> There are some of us who don’t want to be part of any social moloch.
On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 11:01:59 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200
>
> Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Frank Steinmetzger writes:
> > > So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
> > > from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
>
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200
Alex Schuster wrote:
> Frank Steinmetzger writes:
>
> > So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
> > from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
> > install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I
Frank Steinmetzger writes:
> So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
> from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
> install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m having: I
> cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still fun
Mark Knecht wrote:
> All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think. emerge
> grub-static and then do the install as per the boot loader
> instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine then.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
When I did my install, I used grub-static too. I never tried the pl
All of that is the OS, not grub which is in the MBR I think. emerge
grub-static and then do the install as per the boot loader
instructions in the manual. It will likely work fine then.
Good luck.
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 06:33:03PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> From Kindle so very short response for now.
>
> 1) Was this disk previously used for 32-bit?
Yup. Well, I installed the 64 bit into a temporary partition that I created,
so I still had the working 32 bit system in case something goes
>From Kindle so very short response for now.
1) Was this disk previously used for 32-bit?
2) For 64-bit I've always used grub-static.
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