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On 23/09/14 11:07, Barry Schwartz wrote: |
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> Antoine Martin <antoine@××××××××××.uk> skribis: |
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>> Now for my anecdotal evidence, which may help explain my position on the |
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>> subject: in 20 years of Linux, no other system level change has caused |
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>> me more time wasted than systemd (admitedly, the grub2 "upgrade" comes |
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>> close), this is both as a developer and as a user. |
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> I had the advantage of setting up Grub 2 originally as part of an |
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> Exherbo installation a few years ago, where one was encouraged to do |
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> it in the simplest possible way. If you do it that way, it’s actually |
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> like Grub 1 except ever so slightly cleaner. I still do it that way. |
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"Simple" and the large collection of scripts that is grub2 is not |
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something I often hear in the same sentence ;) |
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FWIW: the problem I hit during this particular upgrade was caused by |
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grub2 being flat out incompatible with the disk geometry found on that |
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system, when grub1 was not.. I believe this is the ticket for it: |
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737508 |
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I really didn't have time to investigate this problem during the short |
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planned downtime window. |
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Thankfully, lilo came to the rescue. Choice is good! |
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> If you do it like Ubuntu does, heaven help you. :) |
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:) |
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Antoine |
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