[plug] Grub 2

[Daniel Pittman]

Jim Householder <nofixed at westnet.com.au> writes:
> On 11/27/10 07:44, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Jim Householder<nofixed at westnet.com.au>  writes:
>>
>>> I've just had my first experience with grub2.  While I just had a quick look
>>> at its configuration files, it looks like they have turned a simple file,
>>> grub.conf (or menu.lst), into a set of nightmarish shell scripts.
>>
>> They didn't, though many of the things that *build* the configuration file
>> have turned into a set of shell scripts.  Grub 2 itself has a similar-ish
>> configuration language to Grub 1 - save the addition of basic scripting
>> support.
>>
>>> I'll have another look tomorrow to see why I should not replace it with
>>> version 0.97.
>>
>> Because 0.97 is effectively unmaintained, so no one is continuing development
>> of it?
>>
>> Because 0.97 doesn't support booting from RAID, LVM, or other modern
>> configurations other than by side-effect.
>>
>> Because your upstream distribution decided to use GRUB 2, so unless you know
>> what technical motivations them you might want to assume there are other good
>> reasons?
>>
>> Because you will have to continue to work, as time goes on, to keep using that
>> because other things are going to assume, more and more, that GRUB 2 is
>> installed?
>
> I suppose...  Once again, I'm being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the
> present!  Thanks Daniel.  Good points.

FWIW, I also don't like grub2 very much. ;)
        Daniel

I just accepted it because of the above.
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