Hi
I think the problem proposed by this article is very important.
The article URL is
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7004/1/
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/7004/2/
It said
"In the distant past, Linux used a boot loader called lilo. Lilo was a pain,
because whenever you changed anything, like adding a new kernel, you had to
reboot into the distro where you originally installed lilo to update your
disk's boot partition. You couldn't run lilo from anywhere else because of
version incompatibilities. If you forgot which distro was the one allowed to
run lilo, you were in trouble.
In 2001, grub changed that -- you could make a small shared partition for
/boot and update it from anywhere. Huge improvement!
Now, 9 years later, we have grub2 -- and we're back to the bad old days of
lilo."
"Instead, you're supposed to edit files inside */etc/grub.d*, plus another
file, */etc/default/grub*. That's all very well ... except that those
directories aren't accessible to other distros. If you've set up grub on
your Ubuntu 9.10 partition but you're currently running 10.04, or Fedora or
Gentoo, what happens if you need to add a new grub2 entry? Apparently you're
supposed to reboot back to Ubuntu 9.10, and lord help you if you forget and
accidentally run update-grub from some other system. Ouch! Is this a case of
"Those who don't remember the past are doomed to repeat it?""
How can we solve this problem?
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