On Fri 23 Oct 2015 at 22:37:32 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2015 19:51:17 Brian wrote: > > > > To be pedantic: GRUB2 and GRUB1 don't exist in Debian. They don't really > > exist under those names on the GNU website either or in the > > documentation. It is GRUB or GRUB-legacy. People like harking back to a > > time long past though. > > Yes, I do know that - see my first email. But GRUB-PC is also an obsolete > name - and at least you understood what I meant by GRUB1 and GRUB2 however > incorrect the nomenclature - and I did know it was incorrect/obsolete. I was > just trying to be unambiguous. In which I succeeded. Once you just > say "GRUB", you have to know to which version of Debian one is referring, to > know which GRUB is meant.
It is a courtesy to use the names used by upstream. GRUB has been the default bootloader in Debian since Squeeze. How many years is that?
