Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Jonas de Buhr <jonas.de.buhr@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is grub2 stable and who uses it?
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:48:41
Message-Id: 20111005184721.01af0bda@toxic.dbnet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is grub2 stable and who uses it? by ny6p01@gmail.com
1 Am Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:20:07 -0700
2 schrieb ny6p01@×××××.com:
3
4 > > > Why does Gentoo still 'standardize' on grub instead of going
5 > > > forward with grub2?
6 > >
7 > > Grub2 is weird (coming from anything that isn't grub2), and if you
8 > > mess up the upgrade, you can't boot.
9 > >
10 > > It's a support nightmare.
11 > >
12 >
13 > Wow - what an improvement. :|
14
15 if you mess up the bootloader you can't boot. thats trivial, easy to
16 solve and not at all related to grub2.
17 im not defending grub2 (the little i know about it is what has been
18 said here) but sometimes things indeed need to change in order to
19 improve.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>