Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> writes:
[...] Mick wrote: >> As has already stated you could stay put with your old version, provided you >> have no specific reason to stop using it. GRUB2 can be installed and left >> unused. I guess from a usability perspective as long as you have no need to >> employ GRUB2's new functionality/features, main difference between GRUB >> legacy >> and GRUB2 can be boiled down to what you need to do each time you install a >> new kernel. >> >> With GRUB legacy you edit on your own your /boot/grub/grub.conf to add the >> name and version of your newly installed kernel and initrd (if you use one of >> these). >> >> With GRUB2 you run a single command line and leave it to GRUB2's scripts to >> scan your boot and other drives, discover their contents and auto-complete >> /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Mike wrote: > Harry made no mention of GRUB Legacy in his original email. I assume > he was upgrading from grub-2.02~beta3 to grub-2.02. You are correct.. `emerge world' made some kind of upgrade/update to grub2 which I've been using a fair good while. The install process ended with some kind of heads up. I didn't keep the wording emerge used but it made me think I might aught to redo actually installing into /dev/sda and grub/grub.cfg... hence my question You mentioned the version change.. but I didn't bother to investigate what the change really was. I spent a good bit of time, about 7/8 mnths ago, fearing the switch just when I had become at least sort of competent with legacy grub after years of use, and knew squat about grub 2. Finally braved up and discovered it was really very easy to get thru.
