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Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2011-10-04, Neil Bothwick<neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:49:56 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Subject line says it pretty well. Is grub2 stable, who uses it and can |
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>>> you post your experience on the switching process? Was it difficult? |
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>> I use it on my netbook, which I admittedly don't boot more than a couple |
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>> of times a month. It's stable, I can't comment on the switching process |
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>> as I used GRUB2 from the start with this machine, it seemed a good time |
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>> to get to grips with it. |
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>> GRUB2 is neither complicated nor difficult, but it is different. |
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> I've only used it on Ubuntu, and maybe it's just Ubuntu's |
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> implementation -- but it was both complicated and difficult. There |
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> are 10X as many files, and to change anything you edit a whole set of |
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> configuration files and run a utility that generates _another_ set of |
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> configuration files. |
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> Compared to "vi /boot/grub/menu.lst; reboot", that's complicated. |
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>> If you try to think in terms of legacy GRUB, you will have more |
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>> problems than if you approach is as learning a new system. |
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> At first glace, grub2 looks like a minature Unix installation whose |
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> purpose is to boot a bigger Unix installation. It's got it's own init |
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> system and it's own set of init scripts. |
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Could this fix the mess with /usr and /var having to be on / or a |
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initramfs? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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