On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:52 PM, m...@trausch.us <m...@trausch.us> wrote: > On 02/14/2012 01:40 PM, LK wrote: >> >> On 120214, at 19:24, m...@trausch.us wrote: >>> On 02/14/2012 01:08 PM, LK wrote: >>>> BTW: So is grub0 still supported by gentoo / maintained by themselves? >>>> Does that matter(it is boot, no network stuff) ? >>> GRUB Legacy (that is, GRUB versions 0.xx) is still the default in >>> Gentoo. In order to use GRUB 2 (that is, GRUB version 1.99 in Portage) >>> you'll have to unmask sys-boot/grub-1.99-r2. >> >> The thing is, IMO grub0 is better / simplier. >> > > I disagree. GRUB Legacy is not the same in any two distributions > because every single distribution patches it differently because it > hasn't had core functionality updated in a very long time. It's pretty > much abandoned by upstream, as well. > > I'm not saying that it is bad, but I _am_ saying that it has outlived > its usefulness. > > GRUB 2 follows an entirely different architecture.
A detailed elaboration would be nice. A contrasting migration guide, complete with the how's, where's and why's would be awesome. (Once one's invested in understanding a tool, a 1-2-3-itsmagic walkthrough is very discomforting.) -- :wq
