On 2011-10-04, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:49:56 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> Subject line says it pretty well. Is grub2 stable, who uses it and can
>> you post your experience on the switching process? Was it difficult?
>
> I use it on my netbook, which I admittedly don't boot more than a couple
> of times a month. It's stable, I can't comment on the switching process
> as I used GRUB2 from the start with this machine, it seemed a good time
> to get to grips with it.
>
> GRUB2 is neither complicated nor difficult, but it is different.
I've only used it on Ubuntu, and maybe it's just Ubuntu's
implementation -- but it was both complicated and difficult. There
are 10X as many files, and to change anything you edit a whole set of
configuration files and run a utility that generates _another_ set of
configuration files.
Compared to "vi /boot/grub/menu.lst; reboot", that's complicated.
> If you try to think in terms of legacy GRUB, you will have more
> problems than if you approach is as learning a new system.
At first glace, grub2 looks like a minature Unix installation whose
purpose is to boot a bigger Unix installation. It's got it's own init
system and it's own set of init scripts.
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