From: Stephen Powell on
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:13:43 -0500 (EST), consul tores wrote:
> you, can not know if it is correct, just i can.

Yes, of course. But you *told* me that it was correct. At least that
was my interpretation of what you meant when you said
> Yes, it is correct, but in this specific case ...
I just took your word for it.

> YES, all the theory that you are bringing ahead is absolutly
> important, exept that i really have not read it, before my first
> message; it was not my target recording names!

You've lost me. I don't understand what you're saying. Perhaps
this is a language barrier here.

> My first message was sended to the person who inicieate the thread,
> emphasysing the fact that Grub in Squeeze fails in almost any fs.

I'm only trying to be helpful. If I'm not being helpful, just say
so and I'll shut up.


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From: consul tores on
2010/1/29 Stephen Powell <zlinuxman(a)wowway.com>:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:13:43 -0500 (EST), consul tores wrote:
>> you, can not know if it is correct, just i can.
>
> Yes, of course.  But you *told* me that it was correct.  At least that
> was my interpretation of what you meant when you said
>> Yes, it is correct, but in this specific case ...
> I just took your word for it.
>
>> YES, all the theory that you are bringing ahead is absolutly
>> important, exept that i really have not read it, before my first
>> message; it was not my target recording names!
>
> You've lost me.  I don't understand what you're saying.  Perhaps
> this is a language barrier here.
>
>> My first message was sended to the person who inicieate the thread,
>> emphasysing the fact that Grub in Squeeze fails in almost any fs.
>
> I'm only trying to be helpful.  If I'm not being helpful, just say
> so and I'll shut up.

You are being very helpfull for many people, but i use Lilo! i did
some experiments using Grub2 only for testing it.
BTW, i did an installation again and grub broken the mbr.

Thanks.


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From: Stephen Powell on
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:59:47 -0500 (EST), consul tores wrote:
> You are being very helpfull for many people, but i use Lilo!

So do I! Grub2 is not yet ready for production use, in my
humble opinion. Not by me anyway.


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From: Stan Hoeppner on
Stephen Powell put forth on 1/29/2010 11:47 AM:

> The bottom line: it is not enough to know the names of the packages
> installed on your system. You must also know whether they were
> installed from the Lenny repository or the Squeeze repository to
> know, in the general case, what program it really is. It's confusing
> as all get-out. It is yet another reason that I still run lilo.

+1

I'll be using lilo until they pry it from my cold dead hands. ;)

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