On 05/20/2015 05:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2015 10:16:09 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> Which reminds me: can anyone here confirm whether grub-legacy can
>> handle GPT? I'm getting close to building my new system and I don't
>> want to change too many things at once. By which I mean that I'm going
>> to try btrfs (my fingers will learn how to type that one day), and I
>> might go for GPT if it's not going to cause a lot of trouble, but I
>> really don't want to have to wrestle with grub-2 at the same time.
>> Maybe later.
>>
>> So, GPT with legacy grub, anyone?
> It should do, as long as you create the BIOS Boot partition at the start
> of the drive. It shouldn't care what the BIOS is trying to load. But if
> it's a new system, doesn't it use UEFI? In which case, grubosaurus won't
> work but you can avoid GRUB2 by using Gummiboot, which is even simpler
> that GRUB<1.
>
>
I do not find grub2 complicated, although I've never had a setup with
LVM or RAID. It's always just been:
grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
# cosmetic changes to /etc/default/grub like changing the boot delay
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I was raised on grub2, so I guess that probably makes a difference;
maybe it was difficult when I first started, but I can't remember.
Alec
