About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list, building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to get it working for the *BSD family.
Then I got old and tired and I settled on gentoo. I deleted all the other OS's from my machines, including (especially) Windows -- so I no longer need to multiboot five different OS's -- and so I lost interest in the sexy new features of grub2. Lately, though, I've been using multiple USB sticks, and having them plugged in at boot-time can confuse legacy grub into booting from the wrong disk, i.e. not booting at all. Very annoying. So, I installed grub-1.98 and I've found that it *does* find partitions by UUID, and even by LABEL, amongst multiple disks. Very nifty. Not so fast, though. I don't know how to write a grub.conf file that can tell grub2 how to do that automatically so I don't need to type commands at the interactive grub2 command prompt. That's where you testosterone-pumped youngsters (Dale? Volker? Alan? Neil? Anyone?) can help fix this basically silly problem. grub2 is enough different from legacy grub to make the learning curve very steep -- but I'm only about half-way up the curve and I'm fading fast. (I usually unplug the offending USB stick and reboot :) If anyone here is interested enough to spend some real time and effort on grub2, I can offer a few pointers, but I'm not willing to do the real grunt work myself. Hm, sunset. Off to bed :)
