Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:03:12 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:44 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>> I'm not sure to had get it (sorry, I must be a bit dense...). Can you
>>>>> provide a user case for someone using block lists and another case
>>>>> when they're not in use?
>>>>
>>>> I've explained twice (IIRC; I'm replying quite late to this thread
>>>> because I've been busy...) and I'm not sure that I'm going to do a
>>>> better job a third time but I'll try.
>>>
>>> Yes, sorry, but what you call "block lists" is what I've been using
>>> since many years with no problem. That's why I find strange this is
>>> being "demonized" :-?
>>
>> I'm demonizing them but the grub developers certainly do given the
>> message that you get when you install grub to a PBR/VBR.
>
> Yes, I read about it. But this warning has to be new or at least I don't
> recall GRUB legacy showing this notice when you were going to install
> GRUB into a partition instead the MBR :-?
"I'm demonizing them" should've been "I'm NOT demonizing them"...
I have no idea why the grub developers have decided to label the
installation to a PBR a bad thing given that it works just as well (or
as badly, depending on your point of view) with grub2 as grub1.
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